The west sees China as a ‘threat’, not as a real place, with real people | Yangyang Cheng

The worst abuses of my birth country's government are used to advance domestic agendas

• Yangyang Cheng is a postdoctoral fellow at Yale Law School

I was at dinner with a friend, and she asked about my work. Name one thing you wish Americans knew about China," she said.

That the Chinese people are people," I replied.

Yangyang Cheng is a particle physicist and a postdoctoral fellow at Yale Law School