Countering authoritarians’ Internet overhaul
Global internet freedom fell for the 12th straight year, led by Russia as well as by worsening conditions in Myanmar, Sudan and Libya, says a new report from Freedom House…. Read more »
Category: Asia
Rare protest against China’s ‘despotic traitor’ days before CCP Congress
A one-person protest in Beijing (above) has called for elections, an end to the country’s strict “zero covid” policy and the removal of “dictator” Xi Jinping, in a rare display… Read more »
What the West gets wrong about Xi’s ‘totalitarian shadow’
As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is poised to convene for its 20th Congress starting October 16, a new report from Freedom House* documents intensifying efforts by the party to… 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 »
Ukraine/Taiwan: Checking the strongman’s playbook strategy
Samarkand is hosting the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to discuss Iran’s prospective membership in the group while Belarus has also applied to join the group, Crux reports… Read more »
China’s covert, aggressive media influence meets democratic resilience
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is adopting more covert and aggressive tactics in a multibillion-dollar drive to shape global opinion and consolidate its domestic power in China and its priority… Read more »
Ukraine’s lessons for Taiwan
An “authoritarian hangover” is hampering Taiwan’s military in its efforts to adapt to the growing threat from China, Kathrin Hille writes for The Financial Times. “We have an authoritarian hangover… Read more »
Could China have taken a different path?
On a visit to China in the summer of 1988, I encountered a widespread sense of drift and despair, notes Columbia University’s Andrew J. Nathan. The official inflation rate at… Read more »
U.N. report on China’s rights abuses ‘a game changer’ for Uyghurs
China has committed “serious human rights violations” against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province which may amount to crimes against humanity, the outgoing UN human rights commissioner has said in a long-awaited and damning… Read more »
Exposing China’s ‘unseen war for strategic influence’
A Communist Party congress that is poised to anoint Xi Jinping as China’s top leader for another five years will open in Beijing on Oct. 16, officials announced on Tuesday. Party… Read more »