China’s New Revitalization Program

The northeast offers more advantages than central China but won’t solve the country’s broader problems.

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In the first weeks of September, dozens of senior Chinese officials from high-profile positions throughout the country were tapped to take up new positions in the rust belt of the northeast. Their task is simple if not easy: to use what they’ve learned in Beijing, Shanghai and Jiangsu to revitalize a once powerful region, bringing […]

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Victoria Herczegh
Viktória Herczegh is an analyst at Geopolitical Futures. She is also a PhD candidate at the Political Science and International Relations Doctoral School of Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. Her PhD research topic is "Double Standards projected by Great Powers". Ms. Herczegh holds a bachelor's degree of Chinese Language and Culture and a master's degree of East Asian Studies. She also spent one semester at Shanghai International Studies University studying Mandarin Chinese. Ms. Herczegh is a native Hungarian fluent in English, Spanish, French and Mandarin.