19TH NATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL EFFECTS AND PROSPECTS OF CHINA'S REFORMS

The Editorial Board of the journal Comparative Politics Russia publishes brief proceedings of the roundtable discussion on the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of China. The discussion gathered the researchers from the Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Asian and African Studies (IAAS) of Moscow State University, and the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies. Leading Russian experts discussed the significance of the 19th Congress of the CPC held in October 2017, analyzing the documents of the Congress and assessing the results of the first fi ve years in power of the new generation of Chinese leaders. The participants of the roundtable touched upon the transformation of political power in the PRC, analyzed the new Politburo of the CPC Central Committee, assessed the changing ideology and perception of China's social and economic development goals, discussed the prospects of different models of modernization carried out by the government and their effectiveness, transformation of China's national interests and foreign policy priorities, Chinese relations with the USA, Russia and the East Asian countries.