‘The greatest challenge of our age’? Authoritarian China
As the G7 leaders sent a strong message to Russia by inviting Volodymyr Zelensky to Hiroshima, another rival was also on their minds – China, the BBC reports: British Prime… Read more »
Category: Asia
North Korean Human Rights: Is There Still a Way Forward?
A North Korean school dropout will testify on human rights in North Korea at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy on 17 May, VOA reports: A North Korean… Read more »
Renewed push to thwart China’s autocratic ‘Xivilization’ offensive
Facebook’s parent company Meta announced Wednesday that it has taken down a network of more than 100 China-based accounts that posed as organizations in the US and Europe and pushed… Read more »
Taiwan no longer ‘playing dollar diplomacy’
After years of trying to outmaneuver China in a game of global diplomatic recognition, Taiwan is finally shifting strategies, note analysts Rocio Fabbro and Robbie Gramer. China last month convinced Honduras to break formal… Read more »
Free World must stay the course on Ukraine (and Taiwan)
Ukraine does not want to be at war with Russia. Nor do we. But it has become increasingly clear that Russia decided a long time ago that it is at… Read more »
China: The dove or the dog?
Last Saturday, just hours after Xi Jinping sipped tea with Emmanuel Macron while calling for peace in Ukraine, fighter jets flew across the Taiwan Strait in a display of Chinese… Read more »
‘Sunnylands’ ahead? Partnership a catalyst for Asian democracy
Democracy generates economic dividends by aligning incentives and spontaneous solutions. That at least was the assertion of the Myanmar Economic Resilience and Reform Plan (MERRP), which the National League for… Read more »
Pharaoh Xi: CCP planning Uyghur-style crackdown for Taiwan?
Chinese paramilitary units with experience in dishing out the brutal repression of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang may be deployed to Taiwan once the island nation is conquered, a leading China… Read more »
What’s driving South Asia’s democratic backsliding?
South Asian democracies enter the 2023-2024 electoral years in a precarious state, as the rise of illiberal regimes, corrupted electoral processes, and more has led to democratic backsliding, the International… Read more »
Inside China’s ‘plan to assimilate’ Tibet
Tibet has been an effective police state for more than a decade, under the authority of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Beijing’s target is long-term control over the younger generation, with… Read more »