China’s truce between princelings and populists breaks

For almost three decades the two factions shared power, but then the economic miracle ran out of steam. As the People's Republic of China marks its 75th anniversary, that truce is no more.

Between 2012 and 2015, President Xi Jinping—the ultimate princeling—took over all the major offices of state making certain the country's future: authoritarianism.

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

October 7, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—“No one can stop the wheel of history,” said China’s President Xi Jinping on the 75th anniversary of the day when the Chinese Communist Party proclaimed the creation of the People’s Republic of China. And the wheel is indeed still turning—...

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