This is How China Decides Who’s in Charge
Simon Whistler · August 11, 2025 · 24 min video · China & Indo-Pacific
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Behold, the Chinese Communist Party! Ruling over a population of 1.4 billion Chinese citizens at home and claiming dominion over a vast Chinese diaspora abroad, the CCP is among the most powerful political forces at work anywhere in the modern world.
Over a century after it was founded in the wake of Russia's October Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party boasts over 100 million members within its ranks, one of the world's most powerful economies under its control, and one of the world's most formidable militaries at its fingertips.
From the outside, it's an all but unstoppable force, slowly unfolding a master plan that has taken China from poverty to the edge of superpower status over the span of decades. Its leaders are shadowy and enigmatic, its power structures are convoluted and often hidden from view, and its ultimate ambitions are known to its leaders and its leaders alone.
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Inside the CCP’s shadowy corridors, factions rise and fall, fortunes shift offshore, and loyalty is a weapon. This is China’s real-life Game of Thrones—where power is survival.
