U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week warned that “the situation in China is tightening, it’s getting worse and worse [and] that is a major problem,” in an address to… Read more »
Democracies should should emphasize, not ignore the ideological dimension of the contest with China, according to a leading commentator. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday constituted… Read more »
Bearing Witness to China’s ‘Orwellian Dystopia’, by @bariweiss https://t.co/MIOvc1RedJ — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 30, 2021 American investors are asking whether China Inc. is still worth the risk following a… Read more »
“China gave us the virus. And the free world gave us the vaccines.” the chess champion and democracy advocate Garry Kasparov told the NYT’s Bret Stephens. You don’t have to… Read more »
If the U.S. and China are strategic competitors, then judging by the last 12 months, China is winning, the Wall Street Journal’s Greg Ip writes. Its centralized, authoritarian model has been… Read more »
Xi Jinping‘s shift to Neo-Stalinism may hasten rather than retard China’s eventual democratization, says a leading expert. While he seems to think that he is the only man who can… Read more »
A bipartisan policy must take shape for the United States to “out-compete” China, U.S. Democratic Senator Chris Coons told Reuters on Friday. “Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party are… Read more »
The ousting of four pro-democracy lawmakers from the Hong Kong Legislative Council prompted bipartisan outrage on Capitol Hill today. “Democracy in Hong Kong is gasping for air,” said U.S. Senators… Read more »
China is approaching “world domination” and Europe is neglecting the danger, according to the former head of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND). Europe “hardly notices” Beijing’s attempts to increase its… Read more »
Hong Kong could face a worse fate than becoming “just another Chinese city”, according to a prominent expert. “I think the risks are greater than that, because Hong Kong is… Read more »