"...several emerging trends, unobserved or noted only in isolation, have greatly altered the balance of power between the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] and Chinese society, with the former losing credibility and control and the latter gaining strength and confidence."
Restive population spooks China’s Communist rulers.
Minxin Pei is professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and a non-resident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.