Simone van Nieuwenhuizen
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Biography
Publications
Simone van Nieuwenhuizen is a researcher at the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney. She is co-author, with Kerry Brown, of China and the New Maoists (Zed, 2016). Simone holds a Master of International Relations (Diplomacy) from Peking University and lived in China for three years. She was previously a Research Associate at the Lowy Institute and an intern with the West Asia Program, and has also interned at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy in Beijing. Her research interests include Chinese politics, China-Middle East relations and North Korea. She speaks Chinese and Arabic, and is learning Russian.
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China: a party of governance and control, not revolution
It seems counterintuitive for the Party to suppress Marxist activists yet it can hardly afford “class struggle”.
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China’s “rule of law in international relations”
No one is much paying heed but understanding this concept might be key to comprehending a China-led international order.
![Xi, Orwell and the language of Chinese politics](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/GettyImages-866170192-min.jpg?itok=46JFi8AH)
Xi, Orwell and the language of Chinese politics
Xi is not fostering a cult of personality, but a cult of the Chinese Communist Party.