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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Political and economic developments in China seem to continue to defy the con- ventional wisdom that economic growth fosters The Chinese communist regime has successfully survived the worldwide wave of democratization. including the recent democratic changes in the Arab world. What sustains the stability of the Chinese political regime appears to be the country's rapid economic growth over the past three decades as it catapults China to becoming the second-largest economy in the world. In the reform era. the communist Party of China (CFC) sumwliilly turned a political system of 'politics taka command" during the Cultural Revolution into a system of 'economics rakes command". Deng Xiaoping once famously said that 'economic development is the real hard truth' (FISLUN SIN' YINGDAOLI). implying that so long as the economy performs well. the CPC regime will remain stable. especially since the primary concern of the Chinese people is their personal economic conditions. Indeed. the political legitimaqr of the CPC today is said to be largely built upon.
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