Op Ed

WashTimes: The pursuit of alliances: The SCO and China’s Central Asia diplomacy

By: Jianli Yang - Sep 30, 2022 China’s president and the Chinese Communist Party’s general secretary, Xi Jinping, commenced his first foreign trip in over two years with a visit to Kazakhstan, returning to the birthplace of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) nine...
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Honorable Chinese are Escaping Xi Jinping’s prison

By Jianli Yang & Evan Osborne | September 07, 2022 If the Chinese people today could legitimately vote as a whole, they would, alas, probably not choose those with genuine skill in governance. Instead, they would repeatedly choose leaders who would abuse them...
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WashTimes: Iraq worried about China’s control over oil

By Jianli Yang | September 5, 2022 In 2003, the United States invasion of Iraq liberated the Iraqi people from the tyrannical rule of Saddam Hussein. Nearly two decades later, China has been busy exploiting Iraq’s oil-rich resources by aligning with militia groups to...
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EU Political Report: XI Jinping’s Agenda for His Central Asia Trip

By: Jianli Yang & Lianchao Han - Sep 14, 2022 This is the first time that Xi has stepped out of China in two and a half years since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in Wuhan. Xi seems to be going out of his way to embark on this international trip. After all, in...
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