Rule of Law in China

The Myth of Public Opinion Under Xi Jinping

By: Yan Yu  Abstract  Under China's continuing draconian zero-Covid measures, more and more people in the country are beginning to question the rationality of such policies. In a super-authoritarian country like China where freedoms of speech and press are severely...

National Review: Shanghai’s Anger Could Start a Fire

China’s citizens have begun to reject their government’s totalitarian pandemic lockdowns. By: Lianchao Han & Jianli Yang - May 4, 2022 Shanghai has long been regarded as the most civilized city in China. The municipality’s GDP per capita ranks first in the...

Providence: The West Must Not Let Xi Jinping Protect Putin and Give the CCP Another “Strategic Opportunity”

By Jianli Yang & Lianchao Han - Apr 7, 2022 Last month in Poland during his much-anticipated speech on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden said Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” Biden’s aides quickly walked back the statement, claiming the...

The Globe Post: It’s Time We Give Corporations a Human Rights Scorecard

by Jianli Yang and Alvaro Piaggio - Mar 01, 2022 Several democracies took an important symbolic step by staging a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics that came to a close on February 20. Dozens of athletes around the world bravely refused to act as pawns...