Minxin Pei is Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College and a non-resident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
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Commentaries by Minxin Pei
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China’s Dream World
CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – Ruling elites almost everywhere – whether in democracies or in authoritarian regimes – believe that clever sloganeer…
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Regime Change in China?
CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – One question that should have been asked about the Chinese Communist Party’s just-completed leadership transition is…
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China’s Troubled Bourbons
CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – Sometimes the books that a country’s top leaders read can reveal a lot about what they are thinking. So one of the b…
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China in the Eye of the Beholder
CLAREMONT – One of the most glaring, if unremarked, oddities concerning China nowadays is how perceptions of its leaders diverge depending o…
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Why China Can’t Adjust
CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – China’s current economic slowdown has no shortage of causes: Europe’s financial turmoil, sputtering recovery in the …
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The Myth of Chinese Meritocracy
CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – Political scandals sometimes perform a valuable function in cleansing governments. They destroy the political career…
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The Paranoid Style in Chinese Politics
HONG KONG – Henry Kissinger, who learned a thing or two about political paranoia as Richard Nixon’s national security adviser and Secretary …
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China’s Politics of the Economically Possible
CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – When sound economic advice is divorced from political reality, it probably will not be very useful advice. The histo…
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Nixon Then, China Now
CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – When US President Richard Nixon embarked on his historic trip to China 40 years ago, he could not have imagined what…
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Can China Rescue Europe?
CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – The debt crisis in Europe is no longer a European affair. Coupled with fears of a double-dip recession in the United…
China’s Dream World
ha nguyen: in Vietnam also the same, we can see the slogan everywhere, at the office, in the street, but the goverment dont have the fact that they follow their slogan, they only promise & promise.
China’s Dream World
Paul Ross: Good analysis. With about 10 word substitutions, to correct for country names and alleged government structure; and this also sounds vaguely like most governments around the world.