[EN] CA 16 – Nov/Dec 2007
Summary
– DOMESTIC POLITICS –
Democratic reform according to the 17th Congress (Michal Meidan)
The People’s Liberation Army after the 17th Congress (Mathieu Duchâtel)
Internal democracy tested against the institutional history of the Party (Antoine Richard)
An embryonic participatory democracy in Gansu? (Valérie Demeure-Vallée)
Chinese think-tanks and their status as privy councillors (Michal Meidan)
– ECONOMY –
The 17th Congress: towards a new growth model? (Thibaud Voïta)
The FDIs in China: a new approach by the Central Government? (Pierre Nordmann)
The French role in the privatisation of water in China (Thibaud Voïta)
– FOREIGN POLICY AND STRATEGIC AFFAIRS –
Sino-French Relations: a break with… Germany?(Mathieu Duchâtel)
American realignments in the Middle East: a pragmatic policy at last (Michal Meidan)
China-Russia-India: an equi-bilateral triangle (Michaïl Andreï)
The joint manoeuvres of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (Mathieu Duchâtel)
– TAIWAN –
The 17th Congress seen from Taiwan (Mathieu Duchâtel)
Is a peace agreement with Taiwan a serious proposition? (Hubert Kilian)
Introduction
Two months after the end of the 17th Congress, the Chinese leadership is projecting the image of being reform-minded yet cautious, quietly proceeding to bring about an economic transformation of China. This indeed seems to be Hu Jintao’s trademark. The 17th Congress applied the customary rules, allocating posts on the Central Committee to the various institutions, applying the age limit of 68 without fear or favour, and having the collective leadership itself select the Politburo and its Standing Committee. Ever since the 12th Congress (1982), each successive Congress has increasingly shown that it is driven by one ambition, that of compensating for the lack of any open or legal mechanism for appointments through an informal selection, one that is less arbitrary and more representative of the administrative and technological forces in play.
Mathieu Duchâtel and François Godement
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