The Party That Failed

July 25, 2021 | View In Browser

July 25, 2021 | View In Browser

Illustration: Paige Vickers

Every Sunday this summer, read one of the Foreign Affairs editorial team’s top picks from the archives. Today, we’ve chosen the dissident Chinese scholar Cai Xia’s account of her creeping disillusionment with the Chinese Communist Party. President Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power was the final straw, Cai writes.“People who haven’t lived in mainland China for the past eight years can hardly understand how brutal the regime has become, how many quiet tragedies it has authored.”

The Party That Failed

An Insider Breaks With Beijing

By Cai Xia

Find previous summer reads here.

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