Publications

How to Resist Dictatorship: It’s Time for A Values-Based Economic “NATO”

Dr. Yang Jianli's Speech at the 2022 Conservative Action Political Conference in Mexico Nov. 18, 2022 https://youtu.be/vC-NveLdzIw Thank you, Senator René Bolio, for your invitation. I’m sorry that I’m unable to travel to Mexico to be with everyone in person. I feel...
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China and Iran at the Tipping Point

The people of Iran and China are at a make-or-break point in their history, and the West’s values-based diplomacy is the key to their fate. By: Maryam Nayeb Yazdi and Jianli Yang | Nov 29, 2022 When Iranians headed to the streets in mass anti-regime protests in the...
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National Review: Why China’s ‘Blank-Page Revolution’ Matters

It may well have lit the fuse of a larger revolution that leads to freedom. Western governments can help the protesters. By: Jianli Yang & Bradley Thayer | Dec. 1, 2022 ‘Zero Covid” policy and the fire resulting in deaths in an apartment building in Urumqi have...
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WashPost: Don’t let China stage another Tiananmen massacre

By: Jianli Yang - Nov 28, 2022 On Oct. 13, just a few days before the start of the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th National Congress, a man staged a solo protest on an overpass in Beijing against President Xi Jinping and his draconian “zero covid” policy. I had hoped...
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