Carl Minzner was quoted in a Washington Post article about the current political landscape in China.
“This is a lever to instill the entire Chinese bureaucracy with a heightened sensitivity to the wishes of the center — and in the new era that is dawning, that is synonymous with Xi Jinping,” said Carl Minzner, a professor at Fordham Law School.
Party discipline regulations specifically outlaw any “improper discussions of central party policy.” Expanding that into universities and think tanks, Minzner warned, “risks further curtailing what limited room still exists for objective discussion and analysis of state policies.”