Foreign Affairs

FOREIGN AFFAIRS Will President Xi Jinping be China’s Gorbachev?*

By Jeffry Babb / August 30, 2014

China’s Communist Party controls everything. With a membership of 82.6 million, it is the world’s biggest political party. Political scientists like to draw the distinction between “cadre parties” and “mass parties”. Cadre parties, like the Chinese Communist Party, are not open to all who wish to join them. Membership is the privilege of a carefully selected elite. Mass parties encourage all who share their beliefs to join, such as — in theory at least …

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