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Past Event
China’s 20th National Party Congress was replete with both expected outcomes and abrupt surprises. Lurking beneath the surface of the official Party pronouncements and personnel appointments, many questions remain about China’s trajectory both domestically and abroad. What did this round of leadership change reveal about the prospects for political succession? How will Xi Jinping’s new team handle the challenges that confront the country at home – like economic unease and ongoing COVID-19 lockdowns – and abroad – like strain in U.S.-China relations, tensions in the Taiwan Strait, and war in Europe?
On Wednesday, November 9, the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings hosted two panels of Brookings China scholars who discussed the implications of the 20th Party Congress for Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy.
Viewers submitted questions via email to [email protected] or on Twitter using #20thPartyCongress.
9:00 am - 9:50 am
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9:50 am - 10:40 am
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R. David Edelman, Diana Fu, Ryan Hass, Patricia M. Kim, Ying Lin, Yingyi Ma, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Melanie W. Sisson, Elham Tabassi, Nicol Turner Lee
June 18, 2025
Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, Robert Einhorn, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Sharan Grewal, Samantha Gross, Louison Sall, Steven Heydemann, Mara Karlin, Suzanne Maloney, Itamar Rabinovich, Yun Sun, Caitlin Talmadge
June 16, 2025
Yun Sun
June 6, 2025