Xiong Yan an Iraqi war veteran, Chinese dissident and human rights activist is running in the Democratic primary on Aug. 23 to represent New York’s 10th congressional district. On July 23, he met with Mayer Berkowitz, a Williamsburg community leader in Brooklyn, to discuss his bid to represent the district. Yan is facing off against a long list of candidates including Brian Robinson, Carlina Rivera and Jimmy Jiang Li. As a young pro-democracy activist Yan stood up to China’s communist government, participating in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests that ended in violence with thousands losing their lives at the hands...