Winning Friends and Influence at China’s National Congress

The level of dissent is unusually high ahead of this year’s planning conference.

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Victoria Herczegh
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The immediate future of China’s economy rests on the rapidly approaching 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. Unlike other recent congresses, where most major decisions were made ahead of time, the Oct. 16 meetup is awash in uncertainty. A beleaguered economy has created visible discord within the party leadership and civil society. Most […]

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Victoria Herczegh
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.

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