When Xi Jinping met with Vladimir Putin in the Russian city of Kazan ahead of the 2024 BRICS summit, he used a phrase that has now become common in Chinese Communist Party literature: “The world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century.” It was a phrase first used by Xi in a speech to a CCP audience in 2017. What exactly does “changes unseen in a century” mean and where did the Chinese leader get the phrase from in the first place?
Our guests:
Chen-Dong Tso
- National Taiwan University Department of Political Science Professor
Yuan I
- National Chengchi University Institute of International Relations Adjunct Research Fellow
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