Chen Pokong, known as Jinsong Chen, is a Chinese-American columnist, political commentator, author, television pundit, and YouTuber.
23 Facts About Chen Pokong
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Chen Pokong was invited to Columbia University as a visiting scholar in 1996, and later obtained a master's degree of MPA from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
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Since the late 1990s, Chen Pokong has been one of the most influential Chinese political commentators, critics and authors.
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Chen Pokong has been providing commentary for Radio Free Asia since 1997, and had regularly appeared on Voice of America's weekly Pros and Cons show.
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Chen Pokong has been invited to visit Taiwan several times and has met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in both 2010 and 2019.
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Chen Pokong has expressed his firm support for democracy in Taiwan and a free Tibet.
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Chen Pokong was invited to speak at the Oxford Union and the Cambridge Union, where he delivered speeches and participated in debates.
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Chen Pokong 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.
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Chen Pokong was born in the Sichuan province of China, Chen is a graduate of Hunan University and a postgraduate of Tongji University in Shanghai.
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In 1985, as a graduate student in Tongji University of Shanghai, Chen Pokong wrote a letter to then General Secretary of Chinese Communist Party Hu Yaobang, a known reformist in CCP, calling for political reform to build up a democratic China.
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In 1986, Chen Pokong co-founded and co-organized a large scale democracy movement in Shanghai called 1986 Student Movement which spreading to more than 15 cities in China, calling for democracy and anti- corruption in China.
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In 1989, Chen Pokong initiated and organized a large-scale democracy movement in Guangzhou.
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Chen Pokong then spent the years between 1989 and 1993 in prison and forced labor camps.
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From 1992 to 1995, Chen Pokong had resumed political activities after his release from prison in July 1992 and was wanted by the government by 1993.
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Chen Pokong fled to Hong Kong and applied for political asylum but was rejected; after being repatriated, he was sent to forced labor.
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Chen Pokong was reportedly the first person and the first political prisoner to provide the United Nations with evidence that the Chinese government and its agencies used forced labor to manufacture products for sale overseas.
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Chen Pokong was an assistant professor of economics at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou when the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations began in China.
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Chen Pokong co-organized the protests and was arrested in 1989.
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Chen Pokong later built a career as the principal of a business school located in Manhattan, New York.
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Chen Pokong is an author of a number of books on Chinese political culture and international conflicts, mostly published in Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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Chen Pokong regularly appears as an analyst on Chinese current affair programs, including Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, New Tang Dynasty Television, SET Taiwan, Radio Los Angeles 1300, Hong Kong Open Magazine, Beijing Spring, and others; speaking at news conferences, panel discussions, and other events; and offering commentary to media.
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Chen Pokong frequently writes political columns for Radio Free Asia, Hong Kong's Open Magazine, and other publications.
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Topics of Chen Pokong's analysis include a range of contemporary issues involving modern China and its relationship with the US and the rest of the world.