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Minxin Pei

Minxin Pei is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and the author of "China's Crony Capitalism" (2016)

China cannot hide the COVID death toll from its people

Smartphones, internet and urban living rule out repeat of Mao's famine cover-up

Xi Jinping has a tough decision to make on China's COVID protests

Ending lockdowns and cracking down would both have high costs

China will not overpower U.S. if it keeps losing efficiency

Washington is exploiting key vulnerabilities with trade and tech decoupling

China's Communist Party congress is not just about Xi Jinping

Event will set the tone for economic and foreign policy for the next decade

China's Communist Party needs to face its talent challenge

Congress appointments will show whether loyalty remains the top priority

Pelosi's Taiwan trip should not be a cause for war

With restraint, Beijing, Washington and Taipei can contain political fallout

China's debt bomb looks ready to explode

Many warning signs suggesting that a debt reckoning is imminent

China can turn debt trap of its own making into historic opportunity

Beijing should cut its losses and focus on salvaging its reputation

China has a limited window to salvage ties with Europe

Working to de-escalate the war in Ukraine would be a good start

Zero-COVID strategy puts China between a rock and a hard place

Policy crossroads offers Xi Jinping no easy path

A three pillar strategy to prevent war in East Asia

China, U.S. and Taiwan need to learn from the war in Ukraine

China's long game has just gotten a lot harder

Putin's war against Ukraine has upended key assumptions

Ukraine crisis a gift for China that keeps on giving

Beijing is learning invaluable lessons regarding the future of Taiwan

The steps Xi must take to revive China's economy

Shifting priorities in Beijing have devastated confidence of private entrepreneurs

China smart not to overreact to Biden's Summit for Democracy

Beijing's criticisms of America's own dysfunctional system are sure to resonate

Domestic politics, not conflict, will settle U.S.-China competition

Dangers at home the more pressing threat to each side's worldview

China must not shut the door to cultural exchanges with the U.S.

Self-imposed isolation could exacerbate misunderstandings

Militarizing U.S.-China competition is fraught with danger

Security imperatives usually overwhelm all else, including economic interdependence

China should take steps to reassure its private entrepreneurs

A wealth creation strike would undermine the goal of common prosperity

Can the US and China compete and cooperate at the same time?

Both sides must find ways to work together or risk a new Cold War