Does Xi Jinping Face a Coup Threat?
Does Xi Jinping Face a Coup Threat?  
Podcast: Pekingology
Published On: Thu Jan 21 2021
Description: In this episode of Pekingology, Jude Blanchette is joined by Yale University's Dan Mattingly to discuss his new working paper, "How the Party Commands the Gun: Coups, Revolts, and the Military in China." In it, Dan leverages a new dataset of over 10,000 appointments in the PLA to explore how Chinese leaders, including Xi Jinping, manage the possibility of coups through personnel appointments.