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As the Olympics draw near, critics are attacking Beijing for its policies on the environment, the press, Sudan, and Tibet.
Interviewer: Carin Zissis
March 20, 2007
CFR International Affairs Fellow Carl Minzner, an expert on Chinese domestic issues and former senior counsel at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, discusses the increase in social unrest in China. He says that in China, a country under one party rule lacking institutional means to address grievances at the local level, "central leaders don't necessarily know what's going on until ten thousand local farmers make it out of a particular area and mount a collective protest."
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