Mar 8, 2023 | International Relations, Op Ed
By Jianli Yang – Mar 28, 2023 Introduction The past two decades have witnessed a severe “democratic drought” worldwide. Not only have established democracies struggled to ensure the healthy functioning of democratic processes and institutions at home, but...
Mar 6, 2023 | COVID-19, Op Ed
By Jianli Yang & Austin Lin – Mar 06, 2023 On Feb. 28, 2023, responding to the Energy Department’s new conclusion that an accidental laboratory leak in China is the most likely cause of the coronavirus pandemic, the Washington Post columnist Leana S. Wen...
Feb 28, 2023 | Economics, International Relations, Op Ed
By Jianli Yang – Feb 27, 2023 On Feb. 17, the FBI announced that it is investigating a hack of its computer network. This hacking follows a 2020 Russian cyber espionage operation on many federal networks, a 2015 Chinese hacking of the Office of Personnel...
Feb 27, 2023 | COVID-19, International Relations, Internet Freedom, Op Ed
Feb 27, 2023 The Energy Department has concluded based on new intelligence that the pandemic began in a Chinese lab, according to a memo recently provided to the White House and members of Congress, and obtained by the Wall Street Journal. The agency now joins the FBI...
Feb 16, 2023 | International Relations, Op Ed
By Jianli Yang – Feb 16, 2023 As a Chinese scholar and human rights activist who has benefited from America’s fine tradition of championing freedom and democracy, I have held up American democracy as an ideal in my work to advance freedom in China. In the...
