Overseas Chinese Dissidents Seek to Revive Constitutionalism for a Future Democratic China

Chinese Paramilitary police officers stand guard below a portrait of the late leader Mao Zedong in front of the Forbidden City at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, on June 4, 2014. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

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In early March, some overseas Chinese pro-democracy activists held the first National Affairs Conference (NAC) in Washington to discuss the path forward for China in a post-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) era. They formulated a “blueprint for a democratic China” based on constitutional principles.