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Minxin Pei

Minxin Pei

Minxin Pei is the Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College.  He is also a non-resident senior fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. In 2019 he was the Library of Congress Chair on U.S.-China Relations.

Prior to joining Claremont McKenna College in 2009, Pei was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and served as director of its China Program from 2003–08. He is author of From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (1994), China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (2006), and China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay (2016).

Articles and Events

Mar. 16, 2021: Minxin Pei and Larry Diamond discuss "The China Challenge: How Democracies Should Respond."

Join us on March 16, 2021 to hear Professor Minxin Pei discuss "The China Challenge: How Democracies Should Respond." He is joined by Larry Diamond. Minxin Pei is currently the Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College.

Minxin Pei, Larry Diamond