Carl Minzner was quoted in a Washington Post article about the current political landscape in China. China’s Communist Party recently announced that it intends to abolish term limits on the presidency, which will help President Xi Jinping stay in power indefinitely.
Carl Minzner, a professor at Fordham Law School and the author of “End of an Era: How China’s Authoritarian Revival Is Undermining Its Rise,” said Sunday’s vote showed that the political norms that have governed Chinese politics for decades are coming undone.
“The risk now is: As those norms and institutions steadily erode, how much of the earlier instability could return?”