International Relations

Vancouver Sun: Marcus Kolga and Yang Jianli: Canada must take measures to end foreign attacks on human rights activists in Canada

Marcus Kolga and Yang Jianli In May of this year, the Coalition for Human Rights in China published a report exposing incidents of Chinese government harassment against human rights activists in Canada that have taken place between July 2019 and March 2020. The report...
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IranWire: Behind the Smokescreen: What are China’s Anti-EU Pandemic Narratives Really About?

In a weekly series for IranWire, Jianli Yang analyses Chinese disinformation around the origin of coronavirus and its handling to date, and other recent affairs. It's been exactly a month since the European Union hardened its position against Chinese disinformation,...
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The American Interest: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Power of Ideas

By MICHAEL ALLEN & DAVID E. LOWE Seventy years ago, leading lights of the free world gathered in Berlin to push back against Soviet efforts to discredit liberal values. What can their efforts teach us today? Today, it is said, we live in a time of unprecedented...
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Washington Times: How COVID-19 affects U.S.-China trade deal

Now we know why Beijing inserted a force majeure clause into the agreement By Jianli Yang - - Friday, August 7, 2020 With meetings planned for Aug. 15 to evaluate Beijing's compliance with the bilateral trade agreement signed on Jan. 15 - the Phase One Trade Agreement...
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