No summit invite for ‘demokratura on the Danube’
Hungary is reportedly the only EU member not to have been invited to president Joe Biden’s “summit for democracy” later this year, which is quite right, for Hungary is now… Read more »
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Maia Sandu ending the ‘rule of thieves’ in Moldova
The election of Maia Sandu as President of Moldova in 2020 and the victory for the party she founded at this year’s Moldovan parliamentary election provide a window of opportunity… Read more »
Values of free societies vs. cyberspace ‘fake news’
Former New York Times CEO and BBC director-general Mark Thompson is teaming up with Filipino journalist and press freedom advocate Maria Ressa (right) to spearhead a global initiative to support… Read more »
China’s sharp power poses a ‘threat unlike any other’
China poses a “threat unlike any other” nation in history, according to the chair of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee. The United States should strategically partner with allied democracies on… Read more »
How ‘totalitarian’ China subverts democracy globally
The decision to invite Beijing into the world economic system in 2001 has not led to anything like the more liberal or democratic China that world leaders had envisaged, only… Read more »
Misplaced Restraint vs Liberal Internationalism
The foreign policy agenda of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft – a coalition of libertarians, neo-realists and the progressive left – would diminish the prospects for liberal democracy and… Read more »
Singing Cuba’s political story: Tired regime, fresh opposition
Happy workers in sugar fields. The dashing Che Guevara. Bearded heroes clutching AK-47s. And, of course, Fidel Castro. Love it or hate it, the Cuban revolution has been one of… Read more »
Is Cuba’s Communist Party finally losing its grip?
The Cuban Communist Party’s days of unquestioned hegemony are over, a normally sympathetic commentator suggests. As Cuba’s authoritarian government clamps down on Internet access, a handful of U.S. lawmakers are… Read more »
Democracy needs ‘fact fightback’ to avert ‘splinternet’
The COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating social and economic repercussions have provided a golden opportunity for malevolent actors to push anti-Western narratives into the mainstream, notes analyst Daniel Milo…. Read more »
‘A World Safe for the Party’? CGTN ban a major blow to China’s sharp power
Britain’s media regulator on Thursday revoked a Chinese TV licence after it concluded that the Chinese Communist Party had ultimate editorial responsibility for the channel while Beijing lodged an official… Read more »