Transcript: Rural Discontent, Rule of Law and Social Unrest in China: Implications for U.S. Policy

The transcript (audio and written) of the December 5, 2006 conference on Rural Discontent, Rule of Law, and Social Unrest in China sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, is now available here. 

The four discussants, and their topics, included:

Carl Minzner, Visiting Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, CSIS
        Origins of Chinese Social Unrest
    
Kevin O’Brien, Professor of Political Science, Chair of the Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley
       Protest Leadership in Rural China          

Ben Liebman, Associate Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School
       China’s Courts: Restricted Reform?

Murray Scot Tanner, Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation
        Implications of Chinese Social Unrest for the United States