Analyses and Opinions

A Beautiful China – Three – An Era of Change Is Upon Us Xu Zhiyong, translated by Yaxue Cao, February 20, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a…

A Beautiful China – Two – A Life in Pursuit of One Dream Xu Zhiyong, February 15, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New…

A Beautiful China: China’s Twentieth Century Xu Zhiyong, February 12, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens…

Ilham, My Brother Yaxue Cao, January 15, 2024 Ilham Tohti in the fall of 2013, not too long before his arrest. Photo: Wang Lixiong 1. People often automatically assume that I personally know Ilham Tohti. I don’t. When Ilham was arrested…

China Issues 129 New Rules to Revive Private Sector, But Entrepreneurs Point to the Fundamentals: Amend the Constitution and Toss Out Marxist Theory Yaxue Cao, December 7, 2023 Xi Jinping swore himself in on the PRC Constitution as the…

Whither China? — Xu Zhiyong’s Letter of Appeal November 30, 2023 In August, while waiting for appeal, Dr. Xu Zhiyong wrote the following statement (Chinese original), not so much to the court as to his compatriots. In June, he and Ding…

The Education of Li Keqiang Wang Tiancheng, November 2, 2023 The following essay by Wang Tiancheng was posted on Twitter titled “A Side View of Li Keqiang” (《李克强的一个侧面》), and I take the liberty to give it the somewhat inflated title you…

Eight Years as a Mother (2) Wang Qiaoling, October 6, 2023 At the Lotus Flower Pond Market in Beijing on October 1, 2016. Friends invited Wenzu (the wife of 709 lawyer Wang Quanzhang) and I to take our children for a boating excursion.…

Eight Years as a Mother Wang Qiaoling, October 3, 2023 Wang Qiaoling and son in 2018. (Audio on browser) Since the 709 crackdown on human rights lawyers in 2015, I often introduced myself to others as Wang Qiaoling (王峭岭), wife of 709…

On the Lack of a Fair Judiciary in China: Reflections of a Criminal Defense Lawyer (Two) Li Jinxing, September 28, 2023 Li Jinxing (李金星), arguably one of the most prominent defense lawyers in today’s China, has dedicated much of his…