Publications

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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Americans for Prosperity: The high stakes of privacy: Renowned Chinese dissident tells Supreme Court that freedom depends on First Amendment protections

May 4, 2021 Dr. Yang Jianli wants the U.S. Supreme Court to remember that the right to privacy in association is essential to freedom. Not just in the United States, but worldwide. “There are always some people who tend to use power to interfere with freedom,” he...
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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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