COVID-19: Can democracy cope?
COVID-19 presents us with both our worst public health crisis in a century and the greatest challenge to democracy since World War II, says Stanford’s Larry Diamond, who offers a… Read more »
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Surveillance or solidarity? Democracies respond to Covid-19
Pandemics are democratizing experiences and can also catalyze social change. The Atlantic’s Ed Yong writes: People, businesses, and institutions have been remarkably quick to adopt or call for practices that… Read more »
Covid-19’s latest victim: Hungary’s democracy
Covid-19 is about to claim a new victim: Hungary’s democracy, argues Dalibor Rohac, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. The country’s parliament is set to adopt a new law… Read more »
From cover-up to global donor: China’s Covid-19 sharp power play
China is sending doctors and medical supplies to Italy and other countries that have been hit hard by the coronavirus. WSJ’s Eric Sylvers in Milan explains how China is using… 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 »
COVID-19 highlights lack of democratic resilience
The number of countries “knocking on China’s door” will give Beijing’s soft power a boost, according to one expert, The Washington Post reports. “There is no European solidarity,” said Elias… Read more »
How China and Russia facilitate North Korea’s human rights abuses
Combatting autocratic powers like Russia and China may require the kind of “transformation in the exercise of American leadership” that emerged when Republicans and Democrats joined forces in a bipartisan… Read more »
N. Korean phishing site steals info of defectors, activists
A North Korean hacking group known as “APT37” created a phishing website disguised as a renowned North Korean human rights organization in order to steal the personal information of defectors… Read more »
China behind ‘largest ever’ digital influence ops
People with ties to China’s law enforcement agencies conducted the largest known covert digital influence operation aimed at discrediting the West and promoting Beijing’s agenda across more than 50 social… Read more »
Chinese media’s Great Leap Backwards
Ten years after Xi Jinping took the helm in China, Europe’s democracies have become more aligned on how to deal with Beijing, according to a new analysis. However, approaches towards… Read more »