Prof. Minxin Pei was quoted in a WBUR podcast series about Richard Nixon’s great wager and how the former president’s diplomacy can inform U.S-China relations today. He expressed concern about China’s growing military strength, suggesting that it could take something like the 1962 Cuban missile crisis to prompt dialogue. “My fear is that the U.S. and China will not start talking seriously until they've actually gone through a similar episode—a really hair-raising, very dangerous episode in the next, say, three to five years.”