The Iranian government’s vicious crackdown on protests during recent celebrations of the country’s revolution — which stymied organizers’ plans — has tempted some analysts to conclude that the opposition is faltering. My sentiments reflect another view that could not disagree more, that of Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi. She maintains that the opposition secured a [...]

Minxin Pei, the author of China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy, is the Tom and Margot Pritzker Professor of Government and Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College. He discussed China’s high-profile fury over a $6.4 billion U.S. arms sale to Taiwan with McClatchy-Tribune foreign-affairs columnist [...]