Taiwan

The Diplomat: The Ukraine Invasion: What Lessons Is China Learning?

By: By Jianli Yang and Yan Yu - Mar 01, 2022 In the morning of February 24, Russian military forces launched a comprehensive invasion of Ukraine, and Western governments immediately announced a new round of sanctions against Russia. Beijing’s public statements have...
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Providence: On Taiwan: Goal Clarity, Strategic Tacitness, and Tactical Ambiguity

Jianli Yang - Oct. 27, 2021 The 110th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China comes at a time of unprecedented Chinese military provocations against Taiwan. The democratic island nation of Taiwan still largely uses the legal system and keeps the national...
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Newsweek: Taiwanese Identity Grows Stronger as China Seeks Reunification

By: Jianli Yang - August 13, 2021 One summer day in 1998, not long after I came from China to UC Berkeley as a graduate student, I watched the Seoul Olympics on TV together with a few students from Taiwan. It was a women's volleyball match between China and another...
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Press Release: A Journey to Shine Light on Truth — Dr. Yang Jianli’s book of selected 138 speeches is published

PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Daniel Gong(202) 827-5762dcoffice@initiativesforchina.com Washington, D.C.: Citizen Power Initiatives for China (CPIFC) president Dr. Yang Jianli’s selected collection of 138 speeches (2000-2020), For Us, the Living: A...
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