Publications

National Review: China’s ‘Fortress Without Isolation’

Beijing’s latest Five-Year Plan, while couched in familiar bureaucratic language, marks a significant evolution in the regime’s grand strategy. By JIANLI YANG - Oct 30, 2025 At the recently concluded annual plenum of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee,...

The Diplomat: China’s Next Five-Year Plan Will Bet on Technology at Home and Abroad

At the upcoming Fourth Plenum and beyond, we can expect to see the CCP take techno-nationalism to a new level. By Jamie Daves and Jianli Yang - Oct 16, 2025 The forthcoming Fourth Plenum of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will not be an...

National Interest: Humanity’s Best Hope: Love, Virtue, and Survival in the Age of AI

Humanity’s embrace of AI companions—once imagined in Her—reveals a crossroads: whether technology will deepen our capacity for love or quietly replace it, eroding what makes us human. By Jianli Yang - Oct 21, 2025 From Blade Runner’s rain-soaked corporate dystopia to...

Innovation, Openness, and the AI Race: Lessons from the 2025 Nobel Laureates in Economics

By: Jianli Yang and James Davis The winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics underscore how innovation and openness fuel progress—offering lessons for the US–China AI race and the fragility of growth. The 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, awarded to...