How the Coronavirus Crisis Could Damage Xi Jinping's Political Future
The coronavirus outbreak, instead of the Sino-U.S. trade war and the Hong Kong protests, is the real test of the Xi administration’s ability to govern.
Pin Ho is the founder and CEO of Mirror Media Group. Ho is a veteran journalist and a political commentator. He has been reporting on Chinese elite politics for more than thirty years.
George Yin is an associate-in-research at Harvard Fairbanks Center for Chinese Studies and a visiting assistant professor of political science at Swarthmore College.
The authors would like to thank Sicheng Zhong (Swarthmore '21) for his research assistance toward this piece.
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