Critical Issues in Contemporary China

Czeslaw Tubilewicz is a senior lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Relations, the University of Adelaide, Australia. He has edited Critical Issues in Contemporary China (2006, 2017) and authored Chinese Power and American States (2025), (co-authored with Natalie Omond) The United States’ Subnational Relations with Divided China (2021), Chinese Constructions of Sovereignty and the East China Conflict (2020), Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe (2007) and Taiwan and the Soviet Bloc, 1949–1991 (2005).

• List of contributors vii List of tables ix List of figures x 1 Decoding Xi Jinping’s China 1 CZESLAW TUBILEWICZ 2 Xi Jinping’s ‘new era’ in Chinese domestic politics 19 CZESLAW TUBILEWICZ 3 China’s coming economic adjustment 48 MICHAEL PETTIS 4 State-civil society relations in China under Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping 61 RUNYA QIAOAN AND ESTHER SONG 5 Women returning home: gender policy under Xi Jinping 75 ANNIE DRAHOS 6 Xinjiang in the 21st century: surveillance, social reengineering and settler colonialism in Xi Jinping’s ‘new era’ 95 MICHAEL CLARKE 7 Beijing’s authoritarian responses to populism in Hong Kong 117 SONNY LO 8 Political change in Taiwan and cross-Strait relations from Mao to Xi Jinping 136 CZESLAW TUBILEWICZ 9 China’s Belt and Road Initiative 160 CAROLIJN VAN NOORT AND THOMAS COLLEY 10 United States and China: rivalry, tensions and protracted struggle 178 ROBERT SUTTER Index 195