Episode 131

Chinese Power Politics & Dynastic Intrigue
How is power organized and exercised within China? There are the obvious institutions: the Party, the State, the military, bureaucracy and state-owned enterprises which dominate the economy. But behind this lie the factions and families of the ruling oligarchy, with their descendants known as ‘Princelings’, amassing great wealth from the plunder of the nation, increasingly tied to Western financial and corporate institutions and elites, as well as elite Western universities.