John Bellinger

John Bellinger is a partner at Arnold & Porter, a Washington, D.C. law firm, and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He previously served as the top legal advisor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and to the National Security Council during the George W. Bush administration.

What Does Xi Jinping’s Top-Down Leadership Mean for Innovation in China?

A ChinaFile Conversation

One of the hallmarks of Xi Jinping’s leadership has been a centralization of power across a whole range of areas of domestic politics. This week, the Chinese Communist Party’s leadership meets in Beijing for the sixth plenary session of its 18th Party Congress, a meeting where the focus, according to Chinese state media, will be on managing internal Party discipline.