Tycoon’s Claims Show Limits of China’s Anti-graft Drive
The number of prosecutions under Xi Jinping’s signature anti-corruption campaign fell last year...
Minxin Pei
Tyger! Tyger! A Fearful Symmetry
At The China Story, Geremie Barmé highlights the apparent focus of Xi Jinping’s corruption...
Tiananmen Anniversary Prompts Campaign of Silence
With the 25th anniversary of the 1989 June 4th crackdown now only a week away, The New York...
Shadow Banking: China’s Wobbly House of Cards
While China’s shadow banking system, which by some estimations may have accounted for nearly...
Minxin Pei: China on Verge of Worst Economic Crisis
At CNN World, professor of government Minxin Pei discusses China’s economic outlook and...
Scrubbing of Bo’s Legacy Continues as Trial Looms
The campaign to clean up in the aftermath of Bo Xilai’s spectacular fall from power has already seen the reexamination of hundreds of court cases and the removal of former police chief Wang Lijun’s calligraphy from...
The Key to Bringing Democracy to China
At Foreign Policy, MIT’s Yasheng Huang suggests that the best way to promote democracy in China would be to stress elite self-interest over moral values. Huang also challenges the argument that asking China to democratise...
Contrasting Forecasts for China
At Foreign Policy, Minxin Pei argues that China’s continued rise is not a foregone conclusion, and that the U.S. should ready itself for a Chinese decline. Americans, he suggests, have long tended to overestimate the...
Eric X. Li vs Minxin Pei on China and Democracy
The Aspen Institute has posted the full video of a debate from its Ideas Festival, which ran from June 27th and July 3rd. The discussion pitched venture capitalist Eric X. Li against professor of government Minxin Pei on the...
Signs of a New Tiananmen in China
For the Diplomat, Minxin Pei argues that the CCP Standing Committee should be very concerned about an “intellectual reawakening” which is increasingly resonating with the Chinese public and may be creating the...
Minxin Pei: China’s Greedy ‘Communists’
For the Diplomat, Minxin Pei looks at the causes and effects of China’s real estate bubble: But before looking at who will pay when the bubble eventually bursts, it’s worth figuring out first who benefits from China’s...
Minxin Pei: China’s Not a Superpower
The Diplomat has issued a special report called APAC 2020: A decade into ‘The Asian Century’ The Diplomat looks back over the past 10 years, and draws on leading commentators and analysts from around the world to...
Minxin Pei: Why China Won’t Rule the World
Minxin Pei, Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, doubts the experts who have called this the Chinese century. From Newsweek: Conventional wisdom can be devilishly hard to dispute. For...
Minxin Pei and Ali Wyne: A Freer China Would Stimulate Spending
An opinion piece in the Financial Times looks at the possible link between a country’s level of freedom and rates of consumption as a way to explain China’s failure to stimulate consumer spending: Why has the...
Minxin Pei: Will the Chinese Communist Party Survive the Crisis?
From the Foreign Affairs: Until recently, most leading China watchers thought the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had become remarkably resilient. Through learning and adaptation, it seemed, the world’s largest and most...
China Syndrome – Ellen Bork
From Weekly Standard (link): A MAN WALKS INTO A BAR. At first, he finds nothing unusual about the noisy, convivial atmosphere, but then he realizes something is a little different. Numbers are being called out, one at a time, eliciting laughter from the patrons. “Seventeen,” says one man. Laughter. “Fifty-six,” another says, to great amusement. […]
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