International Relations

Providence Magazine: The World Must Investigate COVID-19’s Origin

By: Austin Lin & Jianli Yang - Feb 21, 2022 January 2022 marked the second anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdown in Wuhan, China. The pandemic has engulfed the entire world and resulted in tremendous loss of life and enormous social and economic damages. If any...

The Diplomat: Why the US Must Take China’s Disinformation Operations Seriously

China has barely scratched the surface of its potential to carry out a “people’s war” on global public opinion. By Jianli Yang and Nick Monaco - Jan 28, 2022 2022 is bound to be a turbulent year for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, as he deals with diplomatic boycotts of...

Newsweek: Enough Complicity With Genocide. It’s Time to Boycott China

By: Rory O'Connor & Jianli Yang - Jan 24, 2022 The evidence is clear, public, and overwhelming: An estimated one million Uyghurs are in concentration camps, treated as little more than chattel, and enslaved. Both men and women endure systematic physical and sexual...

Providence Mag: Tibet’s Climate Crisis and the CCP’s Responsibility

By: Jianli Yang - December 28, 2021 December 10 marked the thirty-second anniversary of the conferment of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Tibetan spiritual leader the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. The conflict between Tibet and communist China has been an international...