US prepared to escalate after China’s retaliatory sanctions
Along with @IRIglobal @NDI & @freedomhouse, we stand in solidarity with those in Hong Kong & China who aspire to live in a free society w/ democratic rights, access… Read more »
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How COVID-19 saps China’s Deep State
China’s political system was instrumental both in plunging the country into the COVID-19 crisis and aiding its recovery, but its pandemic management has not endeared it abroad, notes analyst Richard… Read more »
COVID-19: A ‘breakthrough moment’ for China’s sharp power in global battle of narratives?
Tomorrow’s front page of The Financial Times (above) confirms that the UK is the latest democracy to adopt unprecedented measures in an effort to combat the coronavirus pandemic…. Read more »
How the coronavirus ‘exposes lie at the heart of Communist China’
As the world tries to contain the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, it needs to heed the message coming from Chinese democrats, which is that we all have a stake… Read more »
Democracies vs. dictatorships: Where’s the Grand Strategy?
Now is the time to think faster, more creatively and more strategically about shaping the future before losing too many of the gains in the spread of democracy and prosperity… Read more »
Demolishing Faith: China sharpens hacking to hound minorities, home and abroad
China’s hackers have since built up a new arsenal of techniques, such as elaborate hacks of iPhone and Android software, pushing them beyond email attacks and the other, more basic… Read more »
‘China is not an enemy’? Barefoot lawyer’s death puts focus on CCP regime
Ji Sizun received the news that he had won a prestigious human rights distinction, the Cao Shunli Memorial Award, in honour of the veteran Chinese activist who died in 2014… Read more »
Democratic renewal can counter ‘Ill Winds’ of autocracy and complacency
Larry Diamond has spent 40 years circumnavigating the globe promoting democracy in Nigeria, Venezuela and some 70 other countries. Yet today he is aghast, notes Gary J. Bass, a professor… Read more »
Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party
An exiled Uighur leader called for more concerted international pressure on China to end its mass detention of the ethnic group as he received a US award. Dolkun Isa, president of… Read more »
‘Rule By Fear’: China’s democracy movement faces new challenges
The 30th anniversary of the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests has brought the realization that a prosperous middle-class China will not necessarily turn against the ruling Communist party, as many outside… Read more »