Chinese students staged rare COVID protests ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, DW News reports. Hundreds of students in Beijing have called for freedom of movement amid… Read more »
In a classic case of Orwellian narrative distortion, China’s Communist authorities have banned the word ‘lockdown’ and ordered state-controlled media to describe the Zero Covid restrictions that confined 25 million… Read more »
Beijing and Moscow advanced a vision of a new world order Wednesday as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made his first visit to key ally China since his country launched its invasion of… Read more »
The lessons for the US from China’s ‘common prosperity’ push https://t.co/pmwVc8ABft — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) December 21, 2021 China is experiencing a slow-motion economic crisis that could undermine stability in… Read more »
Buying Influence: How China Manipulates Facebook and Twitter https://t.co/lZR8reXbPc — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) December 20, 2021 China’s government has unleashed a global online campaign to burnish its image and undercut… Read more »
China seems to be in the midst of a concerted push to re-define “democracy” in an international context, likely part of the push for a “Chinese discourse system” and telling… Read more »
In sharp contrast to the ruling Communist Party’s claim to democratic credentials, Chinese leader Xi Jinping emerged from a party conclave this week not only more firmly ensconced in power… Read more »
When the International Olympic Committee awarded Beijing the 2008 Summer Olympics, it promised the Games could improve human rights and civil liberties in China. There is no such lofty talk this time… 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 »
President Joe Biden may be obliged to accept that the days of US co-operation with China are waning and prepare to set about protecting the west’s democracy while there is… Read more »