“Corruption, Constitutionalism & Control”

After the Fourth Plenum, the Woodrow Wilson Center hosted a panel “Corruption, Constitutionalism & Control” with Andrew Wedeman and AMS member Donald Clarke, both experts on Chinese legal affairs and corruption. Clarke and Wedeman explored the extent to which the plenum’s reforms can be implemented, whether they are principled or political in nature, and what the efforts mean for U.S.- China relations. Both panelists offer wide-ranging remarks about how China’s legal system and Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign work and their consequences for how China functions.