Minxin Pei is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, and he has written a very disturbing essay on the situation in China. He describes the current state of Chinese society as poised on the brink of a major change due to problems in the governments ability to respond to the rising demands of the population. One should always be careful of essays that foresee some sort of cataclysm (it’s an easy way to get read), but the arguments seem, to my superficial eye, persuasive.
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