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 | This biographical article is written like a résumé. (November 2020) |
Chen Pokong | |
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| Chinese: 陳破空 | |
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| Born | December 1963 (age 60) Santai, Sichuan, China |
| Other names | Chen Jinsong (birth name) |
| Education | Hunan University, Sun Yat-sen University, Tongji University, Columbia University |
| Occupation(s) | Author, commentator, activist |
| Known for | Chinese political and international affairs commentary |
| Website | chenpokong |
Chen Pokong (Chinese: 陳破空; born December 20, 1963),[1] also known as Jinsong Chen (Chinese: 陳勁松), is a Chinese-American columnist, political commentator, author, television pundit and YouTuber. Chen played a key role in organizing the democracy movement during the 1989 democracy protest in China, for which he was imprisoned and subsequently exiled to the United States.
Before being exiled to the United States, Chen worked as an assistant professor at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. Chen was invited to Columbia University as a visiting scholar in 1996, and later obtained a master's degree of MPA.[clarification needed] from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Since the late 1990s, Chen has been one of the most influential Chinese political commentators, critics and authors.
Chen has been providing commentary for Radio Free Asia[2] since 1997, and had regularly appeared on Voice of America's weekly Pros and Cons show for decades.[3]
Chen has been invited to visit Taiwan several times and has met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in both 2010 and 2019. In 2009, he was invited to visit Dharamshala, India, where he met with the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile. Chen Pokong has expressed his firm support for democracy in Taiwan and a free Tibet. He was also invited to speak at the Oxford Union and the Cambridge Union, where he delivered speeches and participated in debates. In these speeches and debates, Chen Pokong called for urgent attention to the threat of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He emphasized that this was not just a "China Threat," but rather a CCP Threat, which poses a common threat to both the Chinese people and the people of the world.
Chen has turned to be an influential YouTuber since 2017. By 2023, Chen had held over 430,000 subscribers.[4] Chen has been a prominent member of the "zi meiti" (YouTube)(zh), a campaign known as ‘self-media’ or ‘self-broadcasting’, which came into prominence in 2017 amongst exiled Chinese dissidents. The phenomenon is categorized by the proliferation of routine and online broadcasts on websites such as YouTube.
- ^ Congress, The Library of. "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
- ^ "Chen Pokong's Column". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
- ^ "焦点对话". 美国之音 (in Chinese).
- ^ Jie, Chen (2019-12-27). The Overseas Chinese Democracy Movement: Assessing China's Only Open Political Opposition. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78471-103-0.