Please Help Us with the “Tank Man” Statue Project-making the 20th century’s icon image of a single man defying tyranny...
Tiananmen Anniversaries
Tiananmen-Era Dissident Reunited With Wife, Children After US Intervention
A Chinese activist detained by police after marking the 27th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre in 2016 has arrived...
The 2018 Citizen Power Awards – Bao Tong
At the opening ceremony of the 13th Interethnic Interfaith Leadership Conference held in Room Rayburn HOB on the...
Yang Jianli’s Speech at the Rally Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen
West Lawn of Capitol Hill, Washington DC, USA “You shall know the truth and the truth will make you free.” After the...
China: An Alternative History
The memoirs of Zhao Ziyang provide an intriguing insight Into what China would be like today, if the 1989 Democracy...
An Open Letter to the 111th Congress
This letter is sent on the stationery of the Coalition for Human Rights in Asia, a group of Asian-American...
Let’s Get It Right With Cuba
Engagement with reciprocity spells Foreign Policy Success Recent overtures by the Obama Administration toward lifting...
Secretary Clinton Must Demand Reciprocity From the Chinese Government
By: Yang Jianli I find it very curious that American diplomacy and American society in general accepts such glaring...
Gong Min Walk 2008 – Yang’s Speech: The 19th Anniversary commemoration of the massacre at Tiananmen Square – D.C.
Today, I have arrived in the great city of Washington, D.C., the final destination of the GongMin Walk. I can tell...
Gong Min Walk 2008 – Day 29 Yang Jianli Speech: Freedom is not free. It’s earned. – Chicago
(Speech at the 19th Anniversary Memorial Concert and Lecture, June 1, 2008, Chicago) Today we gather, once again, to...
Gong Min Walk 2008 – Yang’s Speech on Day 22 in Philadelphia
Good afternoon and God bless you all. As many of you know, I am walking the 500 mile Gongmin walk from Boston to...
Gong Min Walk 2008 – Dr. Yang Jianli’s Speech in New Haven City Hall Press Conference
In a speech given at a press conference at City Hall, New Haven, CT, Dr. Yang Jianli calls for a democratic system of...