Jeremy L. Wallace is an associate professor of government at Cornell University. He studies authoritarian politics focusing on China, cities, statistics, and climate change. His new book, Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts is available now with related pieces in Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs. He recently published research in APSR on COVID-19 and in International Organization on China and international order. He serves as an editor at The Monkey Cage and writes the China Lab newsletter.
For the last four decades, the Chinese government has measured its performance almost religiously with one metric: GDP growth. But the GDP God is falling, and it’s not certain that the Deity of Security can replace it, argues Jeremy Wallace, author of the new book Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts.
