Op Ed

The Hill: Why the Quad should morph into a treaty-based economic alliance

By: Jianli Yang & Aaron Rhodes - May 17, 2021 As India struggles with highly-infectious variants of the coronavirus and the world tries to lend a helping hand, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rulers are busy exploiting a passing rift between Washington and New Delhi...
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Washington Times: China’s military modernization continues unabated

By: Jianli Yang - May 6, 2021 Amidst growing territorial disputes with its neighbors and military tensions with the United States, China has projected defense expenditure growth of 6.8% this year. This allocation is the sharpest increase since 2019 and the third...
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Newsweek: China’s Attempt to Spy on Uyghurs at Home and Abroad

By: Jianli Yang & Dolkun Isa - April 27, 2021 China today hosts a complex web of surveillance systems to keep track of its citizens and critics, both at home and abroad. Not only does the Chinese state operate multiple systems to maintain surveillance on its...
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The Hill: For China, a summit to neutralize criticism, not carbon

By: Jianli Yang & Aaron Rhodes - April 22, 2021 President Biden’s virtual Leadership Summit on Climate is meant to counteract what is considered damage to the nation’s environmental image by the Trump administration, and the exercise hopefully will have concrete...
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