A court in Belarus on Thursday sentenced a reporter for the now-closed local edition of one of Russia’s most popular newspapers to three years in prison for insulting the country’s… 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 »
China today attacked Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky for meeting with exiled Tibetan leader Sikyong Penpa Tsering. The encounter is likely to aggravate already tense relations between China and the… Read more »
Powerful global forces are eroding the foundations of the liberal order and empowering illiberal figures like Britain’s pinstriped populist Nigel Farage, The Economist observes: The most powerful of these global… Read more »
In its repression of the Uighurs in the western province of Xinjiang, China is creating a template of social control and repression that can be exported and deployed on a… Read more »
Cultural divisions and resentments are driving the rise of authoritarian populism across the Western world, according to a new book. Cultural backlash: Trump, Brexit, and authoritarian populism, by Pippa Norris… Read more »
There are many similarities between American consultant-turned-ideologue Steve Bannon and Hungarian liberal-turned-ultraconservative Viktor Orban. Both have a missionary mind-set; both are interested in ideas; both are obsessed with what they… Read more »
China’s growing power projection in the fields of media, education, and political values and ideas is sometimes called soft-power. But a study of rising authoritarian influence, released today by the… Read more »
Russians are not so restricted by a“’cultural code’ of serfdom and paternalism” that the only way forward is to rely on “an enlightened ruler who bases himself on a group… Read more »
The liberal international order cannot survive the unraveling of strong national communities that are the baseline of democratic government, says a leading analyst. There is an ever-expanding terminology generated to… Read more »