Publications

By: Jianli Yang President Joe Biden on May 26 ordered his national security staff to submit a report on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. His team had 90 days to review the virus's origins, before submitting a report this week. This deadline has been so...

By: Jianli Yang As debates over the power of global technology companies unfold, it is worth keeping in mind–and appreciating–the relatively free, vigorous, and public nature of that debate, at least in the democratic world. Perhaps the best way to appreciate that...

By: Jianli Yang - August 19, 2021 The Afghan government backed by the United States collapsed after losing its military protection, and the speed was jaw-dropping. While international political stakeholders have rushed to respond, China seems to have made arrangements...

By: Jianli Yang - August 13, 2021 One summer day in 1998, not long after I came from China to UC Berkeley as a graduate student, I watched the Seoul Olympics on TV together with a few students from Taiwan. It was a women's volleyball match between China and another...