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Oct 2017
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What did we learn from China's Party Con...

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ECFR’s director Mark Leonard discusses the major takeways from China's 19th Party Congress with ECFR’s head of Asia & China programme François Godement and China expert Jérôme Doyon.The podcast was recorded on 20th October 2017.Bookshelf:Ian Johnson, The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After MaoJean-Paul Kauffmann, Outre-Terre: Le Voyage a EylauAngela Stanzel (ed.), "Grand Designs: Does China have a ‘Grand Strategy’?", available at: http://www.ecfr.eu/publications/summary/grands_designs_does_china_have_a_grand_strategyMathieu Duchâtel, "EU should host US-China contingency talks on North Korean nuclear crisis", available at: http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_eu_should_host_us_china_contingency_talks_on_north_korean_nuclea

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