Predictions by Professor Pei Make The Atlantic
Professor Minxin Pei's book, China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy, is referenced in James Fallow's cover story, "How America Can Rise Again" in the January/February issue of The Atlantic. To view the complete article, visit: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201001/american-decline.
Fallows, noting how Pei "grew up in Shanghai and now works at Claremont McKenna College," says that in his 2006 book, Pei predicts that "within the next few years, tension between an open economy and a closed political system will become unendurable, and an unreformed Communist bureaucracy will finally drag down economic performance." The book examines the sustainability of the Chinese Communist Party's reform strategy.
Pei is a specialist on China and U.S.-China relations and CMC's Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government and Roberts Fellow. He also is the director of the College's Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies.