Susan Shirk Referenced on the Chinese Communist Party
Hard look at black box of China's elite politics
04/27/2012
Peh Shing Huei,
The Straits Times
Chinese elite politics has often been described as a black box. Few people outside the innermost circle of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) really know what goes on behind the walls of Zhongnanhai. Transparency, in the smoggy city of Beijing, is a bad word.
In recent years, such opacity seems to have worked. The leadership succession was smooth, major government policies were fairly consistent and competition at the top was not more intense than the usual elite rivalries.
People may not know how or why the CCP does what it does, but as long as it kept its house in order, that's good enough. This sentiment is widely held at home and abroad. Continuity rather than chaos became Beijing's calling card.
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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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