Chen Pokong

Chen Pokong (Chinese: 陳破空; born December 20, 1963), also known as Jinsong Chen (Chinese: 陳勁松), is a Chinese-born American columnist, political commentator, author, television pundit, and Influencer/YouTuber. Chen played a key role in organizing the democracy movement during the 1989 and 1986 protests 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 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 also has been providing commentary for Radio Free Asia since 1997, and had regularly appeared on Voice of America's weekly Pros and Cons show. Chen has turned to be a YouTuber since 2017. By 2025, Chen had held over 456,000 subscribers. Chen has been a member of the "zi meiti", 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. 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. Chen was invited to speak at the Oxford Union (2017) and the Cambridge Union(2018), where he delivered speeches and participated in debates. In these speeches and debates, Chen Pokong called for urgent...