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I expected to read @bernt_berger's editorial "All That Xi Wants" in the People's Daily Online. But it seems to have been accidentally uploaded to the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) website. @dgap could you please look into this glitch? dgap.org/de/think-tank/… 
"Chinese media were quick in stating that Xi Jinping would not seek to remain president for life. Rather, these steps would provide him with adequate time to ensure that the next batch of reforms (2020-35)" Amazing analysis, Bernt. We should take 'the Chinese media's' word for it
"It seems that the leadership has bitten the bullet, and is now banking on authoritarian consolidation of its government system to support its centrally guided reform plans." Bernt Berger: Is autocratic recentralisation also your foreign policy advise to the @AuswaertigesAmt?
"The government’s strategy relies on maintaining control of both the party and the Chinese public to make any reform process as frictionless as possible." You forgot to mention the 'frictionless' mass incarceration of more than 1.5 million Uyghurs and Kazakhs @adrianzenz
"(...) the party has strengthened its grip on Chinese society and public surveillance in recent years. Although there are plans in place to mitigate the expected hardship – it will be a massive shift" Another brilliant insights by Bernt: Where wood is chopped, splinters must fall
"Key stakeholders are not on board (...) despite statements to the contrary, the CPC’s relationship with civil society has been ambiguous and often tainted by mistrust" How about mentioning the National Security Law, Cyber Security Law, Overseas NGO Law, Anti-Spy Law?
"(...) institutionalized reporting channels, such as the gradually improving petition system and the government's online services, still lack the trust necessary to function efficiently (...)" The petition system was never intended to work chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/12/breaki…
"The CPC needs to square the circle and promote a level of confidence in the efficiency of SPC self-supervision that will convince people to work with its initiative to make governance more efficient at all levels." How about linking it with liberalisation and democratisation?
"improved governance structures might indeed improve China’s international status as an economic partner, and in the mid- to long-run even stabilize the country and even improve the civil rights situation." Conclusion: CCP is always right, will always govern: everything is fine!
A question to the German Federal Foreign Office @AuswaertigesAmt @HeikoMaas. You are funding @dgap. But op-eds like this read like a fluff piece for the People's Daily. Why do you spend German taxpayers money to fund such nonsense? @bueti @StvlL @thorstenbenner @dktatlow
