Minxin Pei
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. He is the author of China's Crony Capitalism.
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. He is the author of China's Crony Capitalism.
The relatively sudden death of Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, amounted to a great loss for the cause of democracy in China. It also showed just how desper… read more
July 1 marks the 20th anniversary of the UK’s handover of Hong Kong to China, under a model called “one country, two systems.” But an unavoidable question will hang over the official commemorations: I… read more
India and Japan are demonstrating that Asia’s major powers can frustrate Chinese ambitions without the US. To see this dynamic at work, look no further than Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent… read more
Donald Trump’s US presidency has already upended the key assumptions underpinning China’s post-Cold War grand strategy. While the ideological threat to China has now all but dissipated, the economic a… read more
The embrace of political strongmen – leaders like Donald Trump who promise that they alone can fix the problems besetting democracies – reflects widespread ignorance of the nature and consequences of … read more
From the British vote to leave the EU to the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump in the US, these are trying times for Western democracies. While Chinese leaders may be tempted to gloat, their own … read more
China is once again gripped by fear. From the inner sanctum of the Chinese Communist Party to university lecture halls and executive suites, the specter of harsh accusations and harsher punishment is … read more
The abolition of China’s 35-year-old one-child policy closes one of the darkest chapters in the country’s history. Perhaps more important, it provides an important opportunity to consider the fundamen… read more
The world’s most important bilateral relationship is in deep trouble. Will this week's summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama reverse the downward spiral in Sino-Ame… read more
It might seem ludicrous to suggest that Chinese President Xi Jinping, the country’s most powerful leader since Mao, could be in trouble. But looks can be deceiving: the true test of Xi's authority wil… read more
