The Ukraine war is only the first phase of a broader conflict between Western democracies and an emerging axis comprising Russia and its allies, according to VoxUkraine’s Ilona Sologoub and… Read more »
The Mystery of the Disappearing Chinese Officials https://t.co/DrdqysZUWy — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) October 26, 2023 How did Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo become a literary icon in a country famed for… Read more »
Ten years of China’s Belt and Road: what has $1tn achieved? https://t.co/p6cdPxq8Ws via @ft — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) October 23, 2023 China offers a coherent ideological alternative to the liberal-democratic… Read more »
The Islamic Republic of Iran may be gloating* over the Hamas attack on Israel but it has entered a serious domestic crisis that threatens the regime’s long-term survival and that… Read more »
U.S. analysts Michael Kofman and Rob Lee argue in a lengthy posting on War on the Rocks that Ukraine’s patient tactics to some extent have been misunderstood and that its… Read more »
One big worry for the Taiwanese government is the increasingly authoritarian and opaque nature of Beijing politics, which makes it harder to assess what drives Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s decisions… Read more »
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 »
China’s ideological proclamations – that it will supplant the United States as the leading world power, remake the international system in its illiberal image and thwart U.S.-led efforts to “contain,… Read more »
China’s ruling Communist Party managed to stifle the democratizing impact of the Internet, but can it curb the liberating potential of AI? Five months after ChatGPT set off an investment… 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 »