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DarkHorse Podcast · Feb 25, 2026
A Transfer of Health: Jan Jekielek on DarkHorse
“Rose to power through crushing 1989 student movement; initiated Falun Gong persecution in 1999”
Forced organ harvesting in China from Falun Gong, Uyghurs, and political prisonersUtilitarian bioethics vs. Hippocratic medicine in totalitarian and democratic systemsRegionally administered totalitarianism as innovation in communist governance
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Pekingology · Dec 11, 2025
The Broken China Dream
“Post-Tiananmen CCP leader who implemented neo-authoritarian survival strategy combining economic development and nationalism”
China's totalitarian institutions and their preservation under reformDeng Xiaoping's dual-track economic transition and agricultural de-collectivizationZhao Ziyang's failed political reform blueprint and the 1989 Tiananmen turning point
View AnalysisPekingology · Sep 18, 2025
Who does Xi Jinping trust?
“Historical reference as eventual successor to Deng; example of succession process complexity”
Xi Jinping's Inner Circle and Trust NetworksChinese Communist Party Succession PlanningPeople's Liberation Army (PLA) Purges and Restructuring
View AnalysisPekingology · Sep 4, 2025
China’s Quest to Engineer the Future
“Built Pudong skyscrapers in Shanghai as monumentalist prestige project during his era”
China's engineering state model and governance philosophyProcess knowledge and tacit industrial expertise in manufacturingMade in China 2025 and technology self-sufficiency strategy
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