Dr. Yang's Journal
Me, China, America, the World, AI, Human Rights, International Relations
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Realist G2: MAGA, MCGA, and MADGA (opens the original)
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Realist G2: MAGA, MCGA, and MADGATrump and Xi have found a way to compete — but America must remember what it is fighting for.By JIANLI YANGSource: https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/09/as-the-u-s-builds-a-grand-deal-with-china-it-cannot-forget-democratic-ideals/The world watched last week’s Trump-Xi summit with the familiar expectation that the leaders of the world’s two most powerful countries might finally unveil a “grand deal.” The same expectation surrounded their Asia-Pacific Economic Coo
Friend-Foe Ambiguity: A strategic advantage or strategic chaos? (opens the original)
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This Trump-Xi summit has solidified one of the most important characteristics of the Trump administration's foreign policy: an upgraded version of strategic ambiguity—ambiguity regarding friend and foe, that is, "who is our enemy, who is our friend" has become a question without a clear answer, or even a question that doesn't need to be answered. This characteristic is evident in issues such as China-Taiwan, Russia-Ukraine, North Korea-South Korea, Canada, NATO, and more. Is this upgraded strate
Trump-Xi Summit and Four Ts: Trade, Technology, Taiwan and Tehran (opens the original)
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Trump-Xi Summit and Four Ts: Trade, Technology, Taiwan and TehranJianli YangXi Jinping’s Sept. 23–25 visit to the United States reciprocates Trump’s trip to Beijing in May, and the White House is marking the occasion with a state dinner, an unusual honor for a Chinese leader. The agenda can be distilled into four Ts: trade, technology, Taiwan and Tehran. On the first, the two sides are likely to extend their fragile truce; on the other three, progress will probably be limited, with continuity ra
The algorithmic sea: China’s AI strategy in Southeast Asia and America’s missing response (opens the original)
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The algorithmic sea: China’s AI strategy in Southeast Asia and America’s missing responseBy Dr. Jianli YangSource: https://www.upi.com/Voices/2026/09/04/the-algorithmic-sea-South-China-Sea-contest/2431788529208/Artificial intelligence is rarely treated as part of the South China Sea contest.Most analysis separates the region into two strategic maps. One concerns reefs, coast-guard vessels, military bases, fisheries, and freedom of navigation. The other concerns data centers, cloud computing, lar
A LAMENTATION (opens the original)
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A LAMENTATIONIn Commemoration the 1st Anniversary of September 11, 2002(This poem is one of over 100 I composed in my head while held in solitary confinement in Beijing. Sept.11, 2002, the first anniversary of 9.11, coincided with China’s traditional Moon Festival. Denied access to pen or paper, I created this poem entirely in my mind and translated it into English after released. )Two huge new waves of glory crashed down,Cast so cruelly into history, the towering twins.Five-thousand ships, with
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