Selected Reports and Opinion Pieces

Advice for Americans Resisting Authoritarianism

I’m a Chinese pro-democracy activist. Here’s how to find courage to oppose Trump, The Guardian, 12/2025

What I Learned in China: Obedience Gets You Nowhere, The New York Times, 5/2025

Beijing’s Censorship and Ideological Control Inside China and Abroad

PRC State-Centric AI Governance Weakens Protection of Rights, Jamestown Foundation, 3/2026

The Problem with TikTok’s Claim of Independence from Beijing, The Hill, 3/2024

China’s Big Tech Crackdown Is Not a Model for the U.S., MSNBC, 3/2021

In China, the ‘Great Firewall’ Is Changing a Generation, Politico, 9/2020

WeChat Is a Trap for China’s Diaspora, Foreign Policy, 8/2020

Why So Many Chinese Students Can’t Understand the Hong Kong Protests, Los Angeles Times, 8/2019

How China’s Censorship Machine Crosses Borders—and Into Western Politics, The Washington Post, 2/2019

How Democracies Should Combat the CCP’s Foreign Interference and Human Rights Abuses

Submission to the Committee on Enforced Disappearances on the Enforced Disappearance of Migrants in the Context of Transnational Repression, The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, 2/2026

Can the U.S. Find a Balance Between Scientific Openness and Security?, ChinaFile, 1/2025

To Combat China’s Influence Operations, U.S. Officials Need Sharper Tools and a Deft Touch, The Diplomat, 9/2024

Tough Talk from Biden at APEC Won’t Move Xi Jinping. Here’s What Will, Los Angeles Times, 11/2023

Why Some Chinese Immigrants Living in Canada Live in Silent Fear, The Globe and Mail, 2/2019

Women’s Rights in China

“Take Maternity Leave and You’ll Be Replaced”: China’s Two-Child Policy and Workplace Gender Discrimination, Human Rights Watch, 6/2021

#MeToo Is at a Crossroads in America. Around the World, It’s Just Beginning., The Washington Post, 5/2020

Is #MeToo Changing China?, The Washington Post, 9/2018

“Only Men Need Apply”: Gender Discrimination in Job Advertisements in China, Human Rights Watch, 4/2018

The Chinese Human Rights and Pro-Democracy Movement

To Ensure a More Sustainable Future, Human Rights Work on China Should Move Away from U.S. Government Funding, ChinaFile, 3/2026

Silenced in China, Grassroots Activists Commemorate the White Paper Protests Abroad, The Diplomat, 11/2023

A Massacre, Erased, The Washington Post, 5/2019