A ‘hard break’ from China’s distorted narratives?
China has reportedly reached an agreement with Cuba to host an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island nation, which is roughly 100 miles from the coast of Florida, in what… Read more »
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‘Authoritarianism shall perish’: China sentences high-profile dissidents
Two prominent Chinese human rights lawyers have been sentenced to more than a decade in prison, Human Rights Watch said Monday, the latest in a crackdown by the ruling Communist… Read more »
What explains China’s ‘durable authoritarianism’?
As a lead member of a band of legal activists, Ding Jiaxi, formerly a successful corporate attorney, was practicing a perilous vocation: human rights law in China. Waging a longshot… Read more »
China’s coming ‘Lehman moment’?
A new U.S.-China Digital World Order Initiative will emphasize the need for “digital democracy” to triumph over “digital autocracy,” according to reports. China thinks American democracy is too messy to… Read more »
‘Extreme Competition with China’ demands democratic cooperation
The new strategic competition requires “rebuilding traditions of democratic cooperation across party lines in recognition that the United States will not be able to meet the China challenge if U.S. political… Read more »
Why dissidents matter
Dissidents in China, Hong Kong and elsewhere have noted the appalling consequences in the last century when liberal democracies failed to stand up sufficiently strongly against totalitarian regimes, notes Oxford… Read more »
China’s ruling CCP faces ‘long-term struggle’: Xinjiang an ‘untenable operating environment’
The four-day plenum of China’s Communist Party (CCP) is being held amid a deteriorating global economy, historically tense ties between China and the US, and an increasingly difficult international environment… Read more »
Pondering pandemic’s political potency
The world’s leading democracies will not be judged by how they initially responded to Covid-19, but by their success in post-crisis reconstruction, according to a leading analyst. We always knew… Read more »
CCP rule by fear endangers Chinese citizens – and the world
As China tames the coronavirus epidemic now ravaging other countries, its success is giving rise to an increasingly strident blend of patriotism, nationalism and xenophobia, at a pitch many say… Read more »
Huawei: Will Europe ‘choose autocracy over democracy’?
Global competition between the U.S. and China is spurring countries around the world to increase their military spending, according to a new report by an international think tank that reported… Read more »