Carl Minzner was quoted in a Boomberg News article about the Chinese government’s plans to tear down walls in Beijing’s gated residential communities in an attempt to improve urban conditions for the millions who are moving to the city.
“Get the popcorn, this is going to get interesting,” said Carl Minzner, a professor of law at Fordham Law School in New York, who specializes in Chinese law and governance. “If Xi Jinping wanted to pick an issue that would intensely irritate the vested urban middle class, and at the same time resonate deeply with all of those left out by China’s go-go years, he couldn’t pick a better one than this.”