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From a collage depicting China's leading figures, China's Vice-Premier Zhang Dejiang, Wang Yang, Party Secretary of the Guangdong Province, and Vice President Xi Jinping (Reuters)

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China’s Top Future Leaders to Watch: Biographical Sketches of Possible Members of the Post-2012 Politburo (Part 1)

April 30, 2012, Cheng Li

The composition of China's new Politburo will have profound implications for the country. In the first of a new series focusing on the next generation of Chinese leaders, Cheng Li provides biographies for several possible members of the Politburo, examining their backgrounds, family and patron-client ties, political prospects and policy preferences. Read More ›

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Addressing U.S.-China Strategic Distrust

March 30, 2012, Wang Jisi and Kenneth G. Lieberthal

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Continuing Complex Discussions on Fate of Chinese Dissident

May 3, 2012, Jeffrey A. Bader

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John L. Thornton China Center

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Founded in October 2006, the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy (BTC) is a partnership between the Brookings Institution and China’s Tsinghua University. Based in Tsinghua’s School of Public Policy and Management in Beijing, the BTC seeks to produce high quality and high impact policy research by Chinese and American scholars in areas of economic and social issues of fundamental importance for China’s development and for U.S.-China relations.

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