https://www.scmp.com/rss/503684/feed Xiao Qiang, founder and editor-in-chief of China Digital Times, is a research scientist at the School of Information, University of California, Berkeley. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com In his 2016 book The Perfect Dictatorship: China in the 21st Century, Norwegian political scientist Stein Ringen describes contemporary China as a “controlocracy”, arguing that its system of government has been transformed into a new regime radically harder and more ideological than what came before. China’s controlocracy now bears primary responsibility for the coronavirus epidemic that is sweeping across that country and the world. Over the past eight years, the central leadership of the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3049940/how-xis-controlocracy-lost-control-coronavirus-epidemic-sweeping?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3049940/how-xis-controlocracy-lost-control-coronavirus-epidemic-sweeping?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:00:16 +0000