Minxin Pei

Adjunct Senior Associate of the China Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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Adjunct senior associate and former co-director of the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College; author of China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy

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Two things most Americans associate with China are astonishing economic growth and mind-boggling pollution.

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On  her last day in China , Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Beijing to continue buying US bonds.

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