PBS NewsHour interviewed Prof. Minxin Pei about the significance of China’s largest protests in more than 30 years. “For the first time, we have seen simultaneous protests in major Chinese cities,” he said. “But the other thing about this round of protests is that participants seem to come from a wide range of social backgrounds.”
In an opinion piece for Nikkei Asia, Prof. Minxin Pei writes: “(China’s President) Xi Jinping has a tough decision to make on China's COVID protests. Ending lockdowns and cracking down would both have high costs.”
The New York Times interviewed Prof. Minxin Pei about the challenges China’s President Xi Jinping faces with “zero COVID” restrictions: “You can arrest people and put them in jail, but the virus will still be there. There are simply no easy answers for him, only hard choices,” Pei said.
In an interview with The Daily Beast about the House Republican caucus launching investigations against President Joe Biden, Prof. Jack Pitney said, “Unless they come up with some dramatic new information that directly involves President Biden, this tactic is unlikely to succeed and may well backfire."
In their economic analysis, “Riverside County vs. San Bernardino County: A look at employment and the labor force,” published by The San Bernardino Sun, Prof. Manfred Keil and Lowe Institute research analyst Jinghan Hu write: “If you want to improve the economic well-being of the region’s residents and perhaps envision a future where people reside and work in that region, then one must attract industries that have better paying jobs than in today’s mix of industries.”
In an interview with Newsweek, Prof. Andrew Busch discussed the political implications of a railroad strike. He said that while a strike could lead to more shortages, supply-chain disruptions and higher prices, President Biden would not want to "intervene in a heavy-handed way to block a strike, either."
FiveThirtyEight cited a CMC-Rose Institute poll that asked respondents across the nation to register their early preferences for the 2024 presidential race.
