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The Ezra Klein Show
Ezra Klein described it as an analysis of the Chinese Communist Party's internal contestation and the shift to using GDP statistics for legitimacy, noting its focus on the party's neopolitical turn under Xi Jinping.
It's called Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts, Information Ideology and Authoritarianism in China. And it really is about the sources of domestic contestation and evolution of what the Chinese Communist...
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Episode: Is This How a Cold War With China Begins?
Ezra Klein described it as an analysis of the Chinese Communist Party's internal contestation and the shift to using GDP statistics for legitimacy, noting its focus on the party's neopolitical turn under Xi Jinping.
It's called Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts, Information Ideology and Authoritarianism in China. And it really is about the sources of domestic contestation and evolution of what the Chinese Communist Party has been, how a revolutionary communist party came to embrace GDP statistics as its measure of legitimacy, and how once those numbers didn't quite add up, how under Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party has embraced sort of a neopolitical turn to legitimize their continued rule.