Bogdan J. Góralczyk is a political scientist and sinologist, and a tenured professor at the Centre for Europe at the University of Warsaw. He is a former long-term diplomat in Hungary, Polish Ambassador to Thailand, and head of Polish diplomatic missions to Myanmar and the Philippines. He has written extensively on China’s transformationover the past four decades, as well as on political developments in Southeast Asia, including Burma/Myanmar and Thailand Simultaneously he was dealing with internal dynamics in Hungary.

• Preface – Introduction. Why Xi? – Chapter I. Power: A Civilization Pretending to Be a State – Chapter II. The Inner Circle: Xinomics and Techno- Autocracy – Chapter III. The Outer Circle: Chinese Governance or Governancewith China? – Conclusion. Xi Jinping and the Chinese Strategic Tradition – China 2022: In a New Era – Selected Literature – Index of Names

Bogdan J. Góralczyk is a political scientist and sinologist, and a tenured professor at the Centre for Europe at the University of Warsaw. He is a former long-term diplomat in Hungary, Polish Ambassador to Thailand, and head of Polish diplomatic missions to Myanmar and the Philippines. He has written extensively on China’s transformationover the past four decades, as well as on political developments in Southeast Asia, including Burma/Myanmar and Thailand Simultaneously he was dealing with internal dynamics in Hungary.

• Preface – Introduction. Why Xi? – Chapter I. Power: A Civilization Pretending to Be a State – Chapter II. The Inner Circle: Xinomics and Techno- Autocracy – Chapter III. The Outer Circle: Chinese Governance or Governancewith China? – Conclusion. Xi Jinping and the Chinese Strategic Tradition – China 2022: In a New Era – Selected Literature – Index of Names

Bogdan J. Góralczyk is a political scientist and sinologist, and a tenured professor at the Centre for Europe at the University of Warsaw. He is a former long-term diplomat in Hungary, Polish Ambassador to Thailand, and head of Polish diplomatic missions to Myanmar and the Philippines. He has written extensively on China’s transformationover the past four decades, as well as on political developments in Southeast Asia, including Burma/Myanmar and Thailand Simultaneously he was dealing with internal dynamics in Hungary.

• Preface – Introduction. Why Xi? – Chapter I. Power: A Civilization Pretending to Be a State – Chapter II. The Inner Circle: Xinomics and Techno- Autocracy – Chapter III. The Outer Circle: Chinese Governance or Governancewith China? – Conclusion. Xi Jinping and the Chinese Strategic Tradition – China 2022: In a New Era – Selected Literature – Index of Names