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at the

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ceremony, and

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Background

Initiatives for China was founded in 2008 by Dr. Yang Jianli after being released from Chinese prison for his political activities. The organization is a successor of the formal Foundation for China in the 21st Century, and it has continued foundation's tasks of Yibao Online Magazine and its Interethnic Interfaith Leadership Conference. Begin in 2018, the organization has officially adopted its new name Citizen Power Initiatives for China.

Initiatives

2010 Nobel Peace Prize

The organization's president, Dr. Yang Jianli represented Dr.

and Liu's wife Liu Xia (poet) to coordinate with Norway's Nobel Peace Prize Committee for the 2010 Nobel Ceremony. Dr. Yang Jianli and Nobel Peace Prize Committee decided on the Empty Chair symbol of the ceremony.

Interethnic Interfaith Leadership Conference

The Interethnic Interfaith Leadership Conferences began in 2000 in Boston, Massachusetts, with the guidance of the 14th

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and support from

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. The Conference seeks to advance mutual understanding, respect, and cooperation among the diverse ethnic, religious, and regional groups who live under the direct rule of the Chinese government, and people living in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, and to explore universal values, which will provide common ground for a common democratic future. The groups represented in the Conference include Han Chinese, Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians, Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, Muslims, Buddhists, and people from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. Past Conferences have been held in strategic locations throughout the world: from Boston for the 1st, 2nd and 4th assemblies, to Hartford for the 3rd, to Washington, DC for the 5th and 10th, 13th, to California for the 6th and 7th, to Taiwan for the 8th and 9th, to Dharamsala, India for the 11th, and to Tokyo, Japan for the 12th.

''Yibao''

Formally known as ''ChinaEWeekly'', '' Yibao'' was established in the 1990s, has published op-eds and news articles focused on the human rights and rule of law situation inside China. A number of journalists and contributors, including Chen Wei, Liu Xianbin, Chen Daojun from China has been arrested and sentenced by Chinese authority.

References

{{reflist Overseas Chinese organisations Organizations based in Washington, D.C. Chinese diaspora