Pekingology

Center for Strategic and International Studies

China is one of the 21st century’s most consequential nations, and it has never been more important to understand how the country is governed. Pekingology is the podcast that unpacks Chinese politics, the inner workings of the Communist Party, and how China's domestic and foreign policy will impact the world. Pekingology is hosted by Henrietta Levin, Senior Fellow with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS. It is produced by Gina Kim.

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Pekingology

Episodes (136)

Thursday How the Chinese Communist Party Stays in Power
Mar 19th Decoding China's Two Sessions: Politics, Purges, and a New Five Year Plan
Mar 5th Understanding Chinese Power

Pekingology

Apr 2, 2026
42½ minutes
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In this episode of Pekingology, CSIS Senior Fellow Henrietta Levin is joined by Ben Hillman, Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World at Australian National University and co-editor of the new book, The Communist Party of China: Understanding the Durability of the World's Most Powerful Political Organization. Ben explains how the Party has managed to stay in power, becoming the world's second-longest ruling party (barely losing out to North Korea's communist party) and maintaining an iron grip on power across vastly different phases in China's development. Ben addresses the role of ideology in Party governance, the u...

Pekingology

How the Chinese Communist Party Stays in Power

Center for Strategic and International Studies

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