The new strategic competition requires “rebuilding traditions of democratic cooperation across party lines in recognition that the United States will not be able to meet the China challenge if U.S. political… Read more »
Next month’s virtual Summit for Democracy will take place against a “gloomy backdrop,” The New Yorker’s Sue Halpern writes. When President Joe Biden announced the summit, back in August, the… Read more »
China on Monday demanded Lithuania end its newly enhanced relationship with Taiwan that has already prompted Beijing to downgrade diplomatic ties from the ambassadorial level with the EU-member nation, The… Read more »
Democracy v autocracy will be one of the coming year’s ten trends to watch, according to the Economist’s 2022 preview. America’s mid-term elections and China’s Communist Party congress will vividly… Read more »
Democratic ideals are the only leverage that the United States and its Western allies have when it comes to pressuring a powerful China, former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen tells… Read more »
At a time of sharpening strategic competition between the democracies and resurgent authoritarians, are the principal axes of democratic solidarity in need of repair? The specter of conflict is haunting… Read more »
China is not content to control civil society within its own borders. Given the role of NGOs in advancing human rights globally and drawing attention to China’s human rights crimes,… Read more »
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 »
China has closed down the audio-only social network iPhone app Clubhouse which has seen an explosion of new users in the last week, including Chinese people discussing politics. According to… Read more »
China’s Xi Jinping “presents a serious challenge to the whole of the democratic world,” according to an important new analysis. The threat demands that U.S. and other liberal democracies “prosecute… Read more »