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What We Know About Public Opinion in China, and Why It Matters for Policymakers
Survey research in China has long suffered from two core problems—difficulties in obtaining reliable representative samples and...
Rory Truex
Feb 2618 min read

Piercing the Veil of Secrecy: The Surveillance Role of China’s MSS and MPS
China has two security services responsible for domestic surveillance. The “political security protection” bureau of the Ministry of...
Minxin Pei
Feb 29, 202418 min read


CLM Insights Interview with Minxin Pei
Minxin Pei. The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press, 2024....
China Leadership Monitor
Feb 29, 20246 min read


Grid Meets Web: How COVID-19 Extended the Party-State’s Social Control Capacity at the Grassroots
Although Xi Jinping is widely seen, both inside and outside of China, as a vigorous centralizer of political power, the party-state...
Patricia Thornton
Jun 7, 202319 min read
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