Publications

East Asia Forum: India and China in Deep Water over Himalayan Hydropower

By JIANLI YANG, Dec 15, 2025 In mid-2025, India launched a US$77 billion hydropower initiative to construct more than 200 dams in its northeast, especially in Arunachal Pradesh — territory China claims as southern Tibet. With a planned capacity of 75 gigawatts (GW),...
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The National Review: One Fire, One system: Hong Kong’s Fire Tragedy and the City that No Longer Exists

Hong Kong did not simply mishandle a tragedy; it demonstrated, once again, that it has become something fundamentally different from what it once was. By JIANLI YANG Dec 9, 2025 On Saturday, the Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People’s...
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The Diplomat: China’s New ‘Two-Front Strategy’ Against Japan and Taiwan

The use of both international lawfare and historical narrative warfare signals a major, under-recognized shift in China’s Taiwan strategy and its approach to Japan. By JIANLI YANG Dec 4, 2025 The latest China–Japan confrontation erupted after Japanese Prime Minister...
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Providence Mag: The Interlocking Dynamics of U.S.-India-Pakistan-China Relations in South Asian Geopolitics

By JIANLI YANG & JAMIE DAVES Dec 2, 2025 In the aftermath of the twin blasts on November 12th and 13th—first the car explosion near New Delhi’s iconic Red Fort followed within 24 hours by the suicide blast outside the judicial complex in Islamabad—both India and...
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