Western policy-makers’ belief in democratic inevitability “blinded observers to the Chinese Communist Party’s overriding objective of retaining and growing its power,” according to a new analysis. “The mass internment of… Read more »
Western powers called on China on Friday to restore basic legal rights in Hong Kong and open up to scrutiny its remote Xinjiang region where more than one million ethnic… Read more »
Why has COVID-19 exacted its greatest toll in nations that have some claim to being Southeast Asia’s most democratic? asks analyst Sebastian Strangio. The reality is complex than regime type,… Read more »
Nathan Law, a leading pro-democracy activist and the youngest lawmaker in Hong Kong’s history, has taken first place in TIME’s readers’ poll of the world’s most influential people, TIME reports:… Read more »
Political turmoil isn’t new in Thailand, which has been rocked by coups and periods of unrest for decades. But a new generation of Thais has taken to the streets in… Read more »
There has never been a more appropriate and urgent occasion to celebrate International Democracy Day, say advocates and analysts. On 25 June the joint Letter to Defend Democracy was issued… Read more »
Civil society groups in Muslim-majority countries are increasingly uncomfortable with their governments’ reticence to criticize China’s ‘cultural genocide’ in Xinjiang, notes analyst Nithin Coca. Activists are organizing boycotts, protests, and… Read more »
America must break the silence that the censors in Seoul and Pyongyang seek to enforce, write @freekorea_us and @SungYoonLee1 https://t.co/dEFPNp7UPe via @WSJ — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 10, 2020… Read more »
China’s ruling Communist Party rejects universalism as a Western concept but is substituting its own counter-universal values based on empire and party that Westerners have trouble understanding, argues analyst Didi Kirsten… Read more »
Since the early 2000s, democracy has deteriorated across most of Southeast Asia, says Council on Foreign Relations analyst Joshua Kurlantzick. Perhaps most dramatically, Myanmar has slid backward after a burst… Read more »