Andrew Walder discusses China's political "holding strategy"

GreatHallPeople Mad Raf Din Flickr NEWSFEED Symbol of the Chinese Communist Party on the rooftop of the Soviet-style Great Hall of the People.
China's Soviet-style political system has not kept pace with the dramatic changes taking place within the country's social and economic systems, suggests Andrew G. Walder in a recent Boston Review op-ed. Keeping the lessons of the former Soviet Union in mind, he says, China's government has instead utilized a "holding strategy" to maintain its political institutions over the past twenty years.