The US Department of State had mentioned his case in the China part of its Human Rights Report in 1994 and 1995.
In 2004, Yuan and his assistant, Zhao Jing, traveled to Australia, and on 28 July, they sought political asylum.
In June 2005 he accused the Chinese government of attempting to turn Australia into a "political colony".
[3] In October 2013, Yuan released his new book Assassination of the Buddha–the Truth of the Death of His Holiness the 10th Panchen Lama (Chinese:殺佛——十世班禪大師蒙難真相) in Taipei.
The book, coauthored with Lhade Namloyak, a Tibetan poet and researcher, unveils what he claims to be the conspiracy of the century, the assassination by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama.