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July 13, 2011

Andrew Walder discusses China's political "holding strategy"

Shorenstein APARC, FSI Stanford, SCP Op-ed: Boston Review on July 11, 2011

China's Soviet-style political system has not kept pace with the dramatic changes taking place within the country's social and economic systems, suggests Andrew Walder in a recent Boston Review op-ed. Keeping the lessons of the former Soviet Union in mind, he says, China's government has instead utilized a "holding strategy" to maintain its political institutions over the past twenty years.