Speaker: Suisheng Zhao is professor and director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. 

Moderator: Glenn Tiffert is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a historian of modern China.

The Hoover Project on China’s Global Sharp Power invites you to Xi Jinping’s Power Concentration and Foreign Policy Implications after the 20th Party Congress on Tuesday, February 21, 2023 at 12:00 - 1:15 PM PT.

General Secretary Xi Jinping further consolidated his power into an all-powerful empire at the CCP 20th National Congress. How has the leadership lineup changed CCP elite politics? How has Xi reached this point of power? What are the foreign policy implications of Xi’s power concentration? Suisheng Zhao will explore these questions in a talk based on his new book, The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy, which argues that the unique visions and political wisdom of transformational leaders have been game-changers in Chinese foreign policy.