Fordham Law School Professor Carl Minzner recently joined the New Yorker‘s Evan Osnos and Bonnie Glaser, senior adviser for Asia and senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, to discuss China’s political reforms under President Xi Jinping.
Minzner: Well, I think it helps to remember that I—for Xi Jinping himself, he sees himself, I believe, as a fundamentally transformative historical figure. I believe in his view, in 2012, when he acceded to office, he saw the Chinese Communist Party as facing a set of existential problems: spreading corruption within the political apparatus, a loss of faith within the political system, and also a leadership that had become weaker and weaker.
Read the Council on Foreign Relations‘ entire panel transcript here.