Britain’s domestic security agency, MI5, sent an unusual alert on Thursday to lawmakers warning that an agent of the Chinese government was actively working to subvert the political processes of… Read more »
After writing on @Independent and @DailyMailUK, here my latest op-ed on @TheSun . Visually attractive design with an enlightening quote: “warn the world of China’s brutal regime.” Let’s work… 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 »
Democracy advocates are not only fighting their own country’s authoritarian regimes, but confront affluent autocratic alliances that act more like a business agglomeration – Autocracy, Inc. – than nation states,… Read more »
Putin is losing the war against Ukraine, against the West – and at home, but the third front — the one raging in Moscow — matters most, writes CEPA analyst… Read more »
While Russian President Vladimir Putin brazenly violates international law on the Ukrainian front, his lobbyists in Western capitals operate in covert ways that allow for plausible deniability, notes Sergei Guriev,… Read more »
As Sudan’s popular revolt surged from late 2018, threatening to topple President Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s government, he received a memo urging the government to run a social media campaign… Read more »
The war in Ukraine is raising particular concern in Taiwan where many see uncomfortable parallels with another authoritarian neighbor threatening a vulnerable democracy. “What people in Taiwan are seeing is… Read more »
In today’s ideological competition between illiberal autocracy and liberal democracy, Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia have made major investments in tools for propagating their worldviews and explaining their policies. The United… Read more »
Would an alliance of democracies help combat China’s technological expansion and check the spread of digital autocratic norms? asks Steven Feldstein, a senior fellow in the Carnegie Endowment for International… Read more »