Stability for Xi, Not for China

It’s unclear what the president’s “victories” at the congress mean for the country.

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Ahead of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which ended last Sunday, it seemed as though President Xi Jinping had lost some control of the country. China was riven with anti-government protests and weakened censorship, and there had emerged a real opposition faction, the key figures of which were expected to keep […]

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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.