The change in leadership in China and the future of the People's Republic

Abstract

In the recently held XVIII Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, the leaders who will govern the destinies of the main emerging power in the coming years have been elected, around which the doubts seem to be much more significant than the certainties. This situation makes a review of the procedures by which these leaders are elected, the positions they are called to occupy, and the power that they will have at their disposal, particularly interesting. And the complexity of the current Chinese political system is more than notorious, since, to the structures of a classic Leninist party-state system, the peculiarities acquired by a state that has transited from totalitarianism to authoritarianism have been joined. On the other hand, the changes that have taken place in the economic sphere, much greater than those that have taken place in the political sphere, only contribute to making it even more difficult to understand the system.