Susan Shirk Comments on the Impact of Bo Xilai's Leadership
A Populist’s Downfall Exposes Divisions in China’s Ruling Party
04/07/2012
Michael Wines,
New York Times
BEIJING - Some Chinese leaders clearly hope that this year will mark another milestone in China's rise under authoritarian rule: the first time that a whole new slate of leaders is chosen largely by consensus among the political elite, not handpicked by a powerful strongman.
That selection will in all likelihood still take place when the 18th Communist Party Congress meets this fall. But with the dismissal and investigation last month of Bo Xilai, the party secretary of metropolitan Chongqing, the notions of stability and consensus in China's secretive political system have taken a big and possibly lasting hit.
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Susan Shirk is the chair of the 21st Century China Program and Ho Miu Lam Professor of China and Pacific Relations at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at UC San Diego. She also is director emeritus of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) and chair of the IGCC International Advisory Board.
In 1993, she founded, and continues to lead, the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.
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