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6 - Seeking Truthful Names

The External Implications of China’s Internal Ideology and Organisation

from Part II - Ideology and the Party in Law and Organisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2020

By
Margaret K. Lewis
Edited by
Rogier J. E. H. Creemers  and
Susan Trevaskes
Rogier J. E. H. Creemers
Affiliation:
Universiteit Leiden
Susan Trevaskes
Affiliation:
Griffith University, Queensland
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Summary

This chapter looks at the Chinese Communist Party’s ‘new-type political-party system’ announced in 2018 and at related attempts by the Party-state to export its governance ethos in international contexts. The People’s Republic of China leadership’s assertion is that there is a China model of governance that is not just an alternative, but actually superior, to a structure based on separation of powers. Since its projection of its governance strengths are nowadays propagated across the globe, the words that the Party-state uses to describe its structure of governance matter both domestically and internationally, as it reaches beyond borders with money, surveillance technology and military hardware, and into international organisations. Within this context, Lewis cautions against validating some of the discourse of the current Party approach to governance in international arenas such as the UN Human Rights Council as an attractive alternative to traditional understandings of government based on a separation of powers.

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Chinese Communist Party (CCP or Party)Xi Jinpingnew-type political-party systemgovernanceinternational law
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Law and the Party in China
Ideology and Organisation
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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