China Vs. Democracy: The Greatest Game
The great question facing the free world is how to deal with China in this new era of competition, argues analyst Michael Auslin. One answer is provided in a new “handbook”… Read more »
Category: China
China exploiting pandemic to pose ideological challenge to West
China’s ideological challenge against liberal democracy seems orders of magnitude more effective than anything Soviet propaganda of the Cold War era could hope to achieve. As the U.S. sinks ever-deeper into… Read more »
Bipartisan consensus on Hong Kong highlights China’s ‘special kind of danger’
The ousting of four pro-democracy lawmakers from the Hong Kong Legislative Council prompted bipartisan outrage on Capitol Hill today. “Democracy in Hong Kong is gasping for air,” said U.S. Senators… Read more »
Totalitarianism casts long dark shadow over China
Can a totalitarian country that does not believe in liberty, democracy and other human values that form the core of the free world be allowed to be the leading superpower,… Read more »
Is the ‘WEIRD’ democratic West in existential crisis?
The West finds itself in an existential crisis, argues Yaroslav Trofimov. Its role as a global beacon is in doubt, and institutions such as NATO are, in the words of… Read more »
Great power rivalry: A ‘specific sort of ideological competition’
China is ramping up its ‘sharp power’ efforts to discredit democracy, but brittle autocratic states are “Titanics,” supposedly unsinkable, yet essentially vulnerable, and are in any case unable to… Read more »
Foreign interference watchdog would combat autocrats’ influence operations
With the Chinese Communist Party’s digital authoritarianism flourishing at home, Chinese-engineered digital surveillance and tracking systems are now being exported around the globe in line with China’s Cyber Superpower Strategy,… Read more »
Global public ‘not buying’ China’s sharp power propaganda
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 »
600 groups promote China’s influence operations in U.S.
Several hundred groups are engaged in covert influence operations in the United States under the rubric of the Chinese Communist Party, according to a new analysis. Thousands of Twitter and… Read more »
Autocracy vs. democracy: A false dichotomy?
Unlike the old superpower contest between the United States and the Soviet Union, the incipient cold war between China and the US does not reflect a fundamental conflict of unalterably… Read more »