International Relations

By: Jianli Yang - August 11, 2021 While the July 1 hundred-year anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party headlined in major media houses within and outside China, a second anniversary quietly flew by several days later. It was 50 years ago on July 9, 1971, that...

By: Jianli Yang - July 31, 2021 Recent news updates about China are all indicative of the country’s efforts to make itself war-ready. This month, the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of China released a set of changes to the country’s draft regulations. The focus of these...

By: Jianli Yang - July 30, 2021 The Communist Party of China (the CCP) celebrated its 100th anniversary earlier this month. Founded in July 1921, the party has transformed itself from one based on communist revolutionary ideas to one that is driven by state...

By: Yang Jianli I have a fresh warning about the ongoing corruption of democratic values in the United States in service of the political interests of the Chinese Communist Party. In essence, one of America’s leading law firms is arguing that there would be "no public...