Op Ed

National Review: Is China Having a ‘Me Too’ Moment

Jianli Yang - November 15, 2021 Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai has publicly accused Zhang Gaoli — a former member of the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee (the highest authority in the Chinese Communist Party) and a former Chinese vice premier — of sexual...
Read More

WashTimes: The truth about the media in China

It's censorship season in Beijing Jianli Yang - November 3, 2021 It’s crackdown season for China with the launch of the new “Five Year Governance Plan” by President Xi Jinping’s Communist Party, chiefly targeting the private sector. Over the past few weeks, the...
Read More

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...
Read More

Providence Magazine: Common Prosperity or CCP Prosperity? The Real Motivation Behind China’s Wealth Redistribution Plan

By: Jianli Yang - Oct 08, 2021 Chinese President Xi Jinping has revived a decades-old term to refer to a key goal that China is now eager to achieve: “common prosperity.” Purportedly aimed at tackling the country’s growing income gap, the government is urging—in some...
Read More