defensive measures to protect the United States from the CCP's aggression—while bringing offensive pressures to bear on it, as the Chinese Communist Party is much more fragile than Americans assume." Hoover senior fellow Larry Diamond commented that Cai's paper is "of great historical and policy significance", adding, "For the first time, we have an important figure from within the Chinese Communist Party system courageously confirming what many US scholars of China have recently been arguing: CCP leaders have never viewed cooperative engagement with the US as anything more than a temporary tactic to enable them to accumulate the strength to pursue regional and global dominance." In December 2021, in an article published in The Economist, Cai said, "The one-party dictatorship is a major obstacle for China. It may even trigger unforeseen social or political disasters. Only by ending this totalitarian system of governance and moving towards a constitutional democracy will the country be on course for good and durable economic and social development." In September 2022, in an article published in Foreign Affairs, Cai said, "Outsiders may find it helpful to think of the CCP as more of a mafia organization than a political party." See also Ren Zhiqiang Xu Zhangrun References Chinese Communist Party politicians 1952 births Living people Chinese dissidents Chinese anti-communists Expelled members of the Chinese Communist Party Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party alumni Academic staff of the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party People from Changzhou Chinese political scientists Chinese women non-fiction writers Chinese expatriates in the United States Former Marxists Women political scientists