Celebrating the ‘Power of Protest’
🗓️ Save the date: For the first time ever, the Freedom House Annual Awards event will be virtual and open, livestreaming on September 16! Register now so you can… Read more »
Category: Asia
Detecting Digital Fingerprints: Taiwan’s resilience to Chinese disinformation
NEW: @IRIglobal, @Graphika_NYC & @iftf report uncovers a series of online campaigns by #CCP-linked actors targeting #Taiwan’s 2020 presidential election and its response to #COVID19 with narratives crafted to advance… Read more »
India’s ‘toxic’ polarization shows no signs of abating
🇮🇳 | Polarization in #India is more toxic today than it has been in decades, and it shows no signs of abating.@SNiranjansahoo with Thomas Carothers and Andrew O’Donohue in… Read more »
Dictators’ dual dilemma: Autocrats ‘digging their own graves’
The dictator’s two dilemmas, detailed by former @NEDemocracy board member @Columbia‘s Andrew J. Nathan | https://t.co/S5tStoMLhX via @aspi_org — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 19, 2020 Authoritarian regimes suffer from… Read more »
India the awkward member of democracy’s Quad?
The Quad is acquiring strategic content: Australia and India today unveiled their Mutual Logistics Support Arrangement to strengthen cooperation in the Indo-Pacific and help build military interoperability. India has… Read more »
The ‘real Mulan’ vs. China’s ‘enemy mentality’
BBC News – Agnes Chow: Hong Kong activist hailed as the ‘real Mulan’ https://t.co/xakJtBE44i — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 12, 2020 Agnes Chow, a 23-year-old pro-democracy activist in Hong… Read more »
 A Thousand Cuts: Maria Ressa’s Fight for Press Freedom in the Philippines
“First they came for the journalists. We don’t know what happened after that,” says journalist Maria Ressa, quoting a solemn line from a Philippine newspaper, inspired by Martin Niemöller’s postwar poem… Read more »
NBA ‘prostitutes itself for the Politburo’ as China sanctioned over Uyghur genocide
China has employed high-tech surveillance tools and thousands of law enforcement officers to lock down the restive Xinjiang province in a bid to halt the largest outbreak of Covid-19 since… Read more »
Genocide or not, Uighurs need urgent international support
Fetishizing the labels we give to acts of horror skews our responses to other atrocities, says a prominent expert. In recent days the horrendous treatment of the Uighur community by… Read more »
‘The New Big Brother’: Internet’s future could be digital authoritarianism
China is using its technological rise to develop “digital authoritarianism” to conduct surveillance, control the internet and censor information not just within its borders, but around the world, a… Read more »