Chinese President Xi Jinping appears to be further consolidating his control of the ruling Communist Party, but Beijing’s overseas influence operations are looking a little ragged. The Central Committee’s just-concluded… Read more »
Civil society groups in Muslim-majority countries are increasingly uncomfortable with their governments’ reticence to criticize China’s ‘cultural genocide’ in Xinjiang, notes analyst Nithin Coca. Activists are organizing boycotts, protests, and… Read more »
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is employing a suite of tactics to advance its strategic influence in countries around the world, in the process exploiting and exacerbating democratic weaknesses in… Read more »
China’s ruling Communist Party rejects universalism as a Western concept but is substituting its own counter-universal values based on empire and party that Westerners have trouble understanding, argues analyst Didi Kirsten… Read more »
We stand together with @Int_IDEA and other global democracy organizations to express our solidarity with the people of #HongKong, who are valiantly defending rights that are part of our… Read more »
Global political and civil society leaders congratulated Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama (above) as he turned 85 on July 6. The National Endowment for Democracy’s President Carl Gershman addressed a… Read more »
The unipolar moment has passed, and it isn’t coming back, according to Alexander Cooley and Daniel H. Nexon, the authors of Exit From Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order. The United… Read more »
China is making fresh efforts to influence Chinese communities around the world to advance Beijing’s interests, requiring heightened vigilance from democratic countries, a new study says. A unit in China’s… Read more »
#HK is like Berlin of the last Cold War. If HK falls for lack of US actions against China, Taiwan will follow, and so will US interests in Asia. It… Read more »
It’s the culture, stupid. The successes of Hong Kong, Taiwan and the rest of the Chinese diaspora have always been an embarrassment for Beijing, says Arthur Tam, a former editor… Read more »