China's Split Personality

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In The Media

China's Split Personality

By Minxin Pei

Published on Oct 28, 2002

Source: Carnegie

About the Author

Minxin Pei

Former Adjunct Senior Associate, Asia Program

Pei is Tom and Margot Pritzker ‘72 Professor of Government and the director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College.

Recent Work

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How China Can Avoid the Next Conflict
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Small Change
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Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.

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