Video: Everything you need to know about China’s upcoming 19th Party congress
Four China experts discussed their views on who’s in and who’s out as the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China approaches.
The debate at the FCC on October 3 featured panelists Dr. Willy Lam of Centre for China Studies and the History Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong; Dr. Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Department of Government and International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University; Dr. Chloé Froissart of Tsinghua University Sino-French Centre in Social Sciences in Beijing; and Dr. Bill Taylor of the Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong.
Dr Lam, author of several books on China including his most recent Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Communist Party, went so far as to predict the top seven Politburo Standing committee members to be unveiled at the congress which begins on October 18.
The panel speculated on how the policies due to be announced at the congress would affect China’s population, and its international relations.
Watch the debate below