Graduation Year

2026

Date of Submission

4-2026

Document Type

Campus Only Senior Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

International Relations

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Professor Minxin Pei

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Abstract

This thesis examines factors that shape the Chinese party-state's involvement in the development of emerging technologies. Taking an inductive approach grounded in three case studies: new energy vehicles (NEVs), financial technology (fintech), and artificial intelligence (AI), the thesis argues that state involvement is a function of three structural factors — strategic salience, perceived threat to party-state control, and the locus of innovation capacity, modulated by a temporal dimension. It concludes in suggesting that Deng-era pragmatism preserved into the Xi era,

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