Chinese Communist Party

China's true soft power

The People's Republic is trying to exert influence across the globe with lots of money and even more propaganda, with Confucius Institutes and cultural projects of all kinds. Threats and economic coercion are part of the repertoire. So far, all efforts have been in vain. In the West, Beijing is only running up against ever higher walls. Although it does have effective means at its disposal to exploit its soft powers. One of these, which it once wielded to make foreigners' mouths water, is China's cuisine.

By Experts Table.Briefings

CP Congresses: From consensus to the era of Xi

The party congresses of China's Communists are a forum for socialist grandeur, the forcing through of ideologies. In recent decades, they also stood for an orderly transfer of power. That no longer applies. At the upcoming 20th CP Congress, President Xi Jinping will be elected Chairman for another five years.

By Christiane Kuehl

The strange docility of the Chinese

Our "China Perspective" column is written by authors from the People's Republic. Today's part deals with the question: How can 1.4 billion people be so docile? The Chinese endure absurd Covid lockdowns and restrictions on freedom without any objections. The answer lies partly in an education system that instills obedience into people. The other reason is much simpler and far more brutal: A fear of the authorities.

By Experts Table.Briefings

Return to isolation

Officially, the Chinese government's position is to open itself to the world. In reality, however, it has launched a decoupling from the West on numerous levels, which is distancing the People's Republic further and further from the rest of the world economically, culturally and socially. A deliberate side effect is the continuously growing nationalism.

By Marcel Grzanna

Ahead of CP congress: cyber authority plans stricter monitoring

By Redaktion Table

Nargiza Salidjanova – China perspective from Washington

By Redaktion Table

China's emotional congestion

In dictatorships like the one in China, people often live a double life. Cab drivers swear vocally about the government, but are strict CP members at the same time. In schools, Orwellian neologisms and doublespeak are widespread, words are attributed new meanings, and logic is often twisted. China is drifting into a "new form of totalitarianism" that does not use terror, but massively suppresses and kills debate.

By Table.Briefings

Several cities increase Covid measures

By Redaktion Table

China's growth sacrifices have only just begun

For four decades, rapid economic growth was the prime imperative of China's communist leaders. President Xi Jinping, by contrast, is prepared to forego growth in the interest of cementing the Party's political power and pursuing his Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation.

By Experts Table.Briefings

Xu Lin – Workaholic in the service of propaganda

By Marcel Grzanna