Jianli Yang

China is tapping America’s AI knowledge pipeline. The answer is managed precision openness.

What gives a soldier the courage to refuse an order that endangers the very people his uniform is meant to protect?

Xi is pursuing unification not merely through military preparation — but also through calibrated political warfare.

China is sending a strategic signal about Japan.

How China’s crackdown on Manus signals a new phase of techno-authoritarian competition — and how Washington should respond.

And how to potentially overcome them.

The struggle is best understood as a code war — originating in technology but extending far beyond it.

China’s latest action looks less like an exercise and more like a deliberate attempt to erase the line between drills and war.

A new paper reveals the essence of Beijing’s worldview: the entire world is one chessboard, and the Taiwan question is at its center.

Hong Kong did not simply mishandle a tragedy; it demonstrated, once again, that it has become something fundamentally different from what it once was.

Beijing’s latest Five-Year Plan, while couched in familiar bureaucratic language, marks a significant evolution in the regime’s grand strategy.