Flora Yan was a 2022 Templeton Fellow in the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. She previously served as a Research Associate at the National Association of Scholars where she focused on China. Her work explores US-China relations, paradiplomacy, and PRC transnational repression activities. She is the author of an ongoing series titled “How China Influences Measures and Interferes in Democratic Processes of U.S. State Legislatures” in The Diplomat. Her writings have also appeared in Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief and Hong Kong Free Press. She holds a B.A. in political science and communication from the University of Washington.