Wendy Leutert

A thread introducing my book ‘China’s State-Owned Enterprises: Leadership, Reform, and Internationalization’ @CambridgeUP (2024) (1/10) 🧵

"The Party in Chinese Private Business" - new paper by Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and Kasper Ingeman Beck documents variation in the role and influence of Party cells across private firms tinyurl.com/2bty6njw @CAustinJordan @zhangye68 @JorisMueller @Tamygros

More details on the new bureau in China's government ownership agency #SASAC established to better monitor state-owned assets abroad tinyurl.com/3j3kh3dn @yicaichina

Many thanks to Ben Hillman & Fengyuan Ji for giving Sarah Eaton and I the opportunity to contribute a chapter on "China’s Adaptive State Capitalism and Its International Sources" to this excellent volume

The Communist Party of China by Ben Hillman and Fengyuan Ji An interdisciplinary collection exploring the ideology and mechanisms behind the Communist Party of China's grip on political power. 📚 cup.org/4voCJeb

I brought together “Multidimensionality ofSectors & Real &Perceived ChineseState Power in theNPE.” Papers: @jjding99, @mekosal, @IshanaRatan, @RoselynHsueh, @HueiJyunYe, who presented our paper coauthored w/ @RyanYulinLiou. @HanFeiTzu @wendyleutert provided helpful comments. 4/

I discussed fantastic papers on “Rethinking IPE of China’s overseas engagement: Discovery of new knowledge through new governance approaches.” Chair: Chong Chen; papers: Richard Carney, Anton Malkin, Karl Yan, Georg Lammich, @wendyleutert, Yitong Ye, @yixiansun & Weizhun Mao. 3/

Many thanks to Jessica Teets for reviewing my book 'China's State-Owned Enterprises: Leadership, Reform, and Internationalization' in @TheChinaJournal &for such thoughtful engagement with its ideas & directions for future research @CambridgeUP @CUP_PoliSci tinyurl.com/4792uzxx

"Lessons from Using State Organs to Finance the Green Transition in China" by Mathias Larsen, including discussion of the role of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) @GRI_LSE tinyurl.com/4y4yyex5

Today, @AidData publishes our new report, Anchoring Global Ambitions, and an accompanying dataset (CPORTS). Our findings represent the most comprehensive data on China’s financing for global seaports, an increasingly important topic as we follow news at the Panama Canal 🧵(1/?)

So you don't have to do it: the translation of the Main Indicator Table for the 15th Five Year Plan. You are welcome. A lot of continuity with the 14th Plan, down to the number of indicators. Only 2 dropped, and two new in the 15th Plan compared to the 14th Plan.

China sets lowest GDP growth target in decades ft.trib.al/FjVC7PT

Chinese state-owned companies are buying foreclosed property projects, in a sign that long-promised government efforts to reduce massive oversupply in the crisis-hit housing sector are finally getting traction, albeit at a slow pace. reuters.com/world/china/st…

Rather than assuming a monolithic state capitalism model, our findings suggest that ownership outcomes are mediated through subnational state–business relations. State capitalism operates not as a centralized command structure, but through local institutional contexts.

📣New paper alert! 📣 Sharing my new paper coauthor with Zhipeng Ye from ECNU published in Energy Research & Social Science! We answer this question: How do local governments choose between SOEs and private firms in China’s wind power permitting? sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

It was a pleasure to talk with @NBorstSF about his new book on tensions between state control + market forces in China. I can't recommend it highly enough. tinyurl.com/3hjz86hn @NCUSCR

China's Competitive Shock to Global Markets seafarerfunds.com/prevailing-win…

Visualizing China's leadership: I'm back with an updated infographic, this time showing newly purged party members, new roles, and updated job descriptions. Download the full version: jagevanscom.wordpress.com/wp-content/upl…

📈 What happens when market forces collide with party control in China? In a recent program, #PIPFellows @NBorstSF (@SeafarerCapital) and @wendyleutert (@IndianaUniv) discuss Borst’s new book "The Bird and the Cage: China’s Economic Contradictions." ▶️ Watch: bit.ly/4k0xR9x

Enjoyed discussing the Party’s role in China’s economy and my book with @wendyleutert The Bird and the Cage: China’s Economic Contradictions ncuscr.org/video/the-bird… @NCUSCR