Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ideology-driven economic policies risk derailing the country’s future as they fundamentally change incentives driving the behavior of local officials, entrepreneurs and young Chinese, Nikkei Asia reports…. Read more »
Democracies and the rules-based international order are facing their “greatest challenge” since the Cold War, said President Tsai Ing-wen (above), calling for greater cooperation by democracies to counter authoritarian regimes…. Read more »
Chinese President Xi Jinping has promulgated a new law on foreign affairs to legitimize tough measures that Beijing is taking against the “bullying” of the “hegemonic West,” notes Dr. Willy… Read more »
As the G7 leaders sent a strong message to Russia by inviting Volodymyr Zelensky to Hiroshima, another rival was also on their minds – China, the BBC reports: British Prime… Read more »
The United States has lost influence to China in Southeast Asia over the past five years, a leading Australian think-tank said today. According to a report released by Sydney’s Lowy Institute,… Read more »
Taxpayer money is being used to ‘smuggle Chinese ideology’ into Australia via community language schools, reports suggest. Students are using textbooks from the CCP’s United Front which say the South… Read more »
Only when accountability and democracy have arrived can China hope to begin the process of addressing the Cultural Revolution’s lingering injustices, says democracy activist Nathan Law. Tania Branigan’s searching ‘Red… Read more »
How Chinese people remember and talk about their experiences during the COVID surge with one another may have real political consequences, says Minxin Pei, professor of government at Claremont McKenna… Read more »
China’s A4 protests have “far exceeded” the Democracy Wall Movement of which Wei Jingsheng was a leading figure in the late ’70s, he tells Matt Pottinger, chairman of The Foundation… Read more »
While the protests in China were initially born out of shared dissatisfaction against the COVID-19 policy, people soon found themselves going into different directions, ideologically and physically, notes Xiaoyu Lu,… Read more »