Analyses and Opinions

Free Zhang Zhan – Speech at the Lin Zhao Freedom Award Ceremony Yaxue Cao, December 7, 2021 I want to thank ChinaAid for recognizing Zhang Zhan and for allowing me to say a few words in her absence. It’s an honor, and it is also deeply…

What Awaits Peng Shuai Yaxue Cao, December 1, 2021 Peng Shuai during the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne in January 2017. Photo: ABC I At 10:07 pm on November 2nd, Peng Shuai, the 35-year-old Chinese tennis star, posted…

Chinese Human Rights Lawyers Circulate Open Letter to Shanghai Authorities Appealing for Citizen Journalist Zhang Zhan to Receive a Full Physical Examination and Emergency Medical Treatment November 15, 2021 To the directors of the…

Response to a Journalist’s Query Regarding the Sun Dawu Verdict Yaxue Cao, July 28, 2021 There is no sun, moon and stars but dazzling lights that blind me day and night, With two armed soldiers guarding me, six shifts a day, through long…

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Will Be a Glorification of Xi Jinping and the CCP’s Global Agenda; We Must Counter With a Diplomatic Boycott Andréa Worden, April 21, 2021 There are many reasons why rights-respecting governments should…

‘The Legal Apparatus Can Bring Anyone to Court for the Sake of Censoring the People:’ Some Statements by the Defense During the Trial Argument Phase of Zhang Zhan’s Case Attorney Zhang Keke, January 1, 2021 A website run by China’s…

Better to Die for One’s Words Than Survive on Silence: A New Year Statement by The China Human Rights Lawyers Group The China Human Rights Lawyers Group, January 1, 2021 The year of 2020 has seen a coronavirus pandemic rage across the…

‘A Madman’s Diary’ in the Age of the Pandemic: The Case of Zhang Zhan Ai Xiaoming, December 27, 2020 Zhang Zhan (张展), a lawyer who practiced in Shanghai, went to Wuhan in early February, determined to document the coronavirus outbreak in…

Dawu Group’s Concept of ‘Constitutional Labor-Capital Republic’ and Its Model of ‘Open Governance and Co-Prosperity’ Wang Jiangsong, November 24, 2020 Sun Dawu (孙大午) is a name many of our readers might be familiar or have heard of. A…