The internal operations of the Chinese Communist Party are opaque. Debates are lively in the West over the CCP’s true motivations and dogma, and whether it’s intensely monolithic or an organization plagued by secretive infighting and internal power struggles beneath the rule of Chinese President Xi Jinping. National Security Editor Guy Taylor sits down with Glenn Tiffert a preeminent China scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University for a discussion on the CCP’s inner dynamics, its efforts to globalize Beijing’s authoritarian censorship regime and the meaning behind “Xi Jinping thought.”

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