Angered by President Biden’s Summit for Democracy, and filled with scorn for a dysfunctional West, China insists it is more democratic than America https://t.co/S2wF4QSWw4 from @TheEconomist https://t.co/S2wF4QSWw4 — David Rennie… Read more »
What do China’s mask diplomacy, America’s sanctions on Iran, Russia’s election interference, Belarus’s migration policy, struggles over Huawei, Covid-19 and Climate change have in common? Although seemingly separate events, they… Read more »
In formulating a response to the recent protests in Cuba, the U.S. administration should listen to activists on the ground, argues Amalia Dache, an Afro-Cuban American associate professor at the… Read more »
Senior White House officials appeared at a conference on emerging technologies to reinforce the message that Washington and its allies must close ranks to ensure that advances in artificial intelligence… Read more »
There is growing concern that Russian President Vladimir Putin may attempt to spur another crisis abroad (perhaps over Belarus) as a way to distract from the mounting political pressure at… Read more »
President Joe Biden’s nominee for United Nations ambassador will pledge to restore American leadership, warning that its absence in recent years has allowed China to fill the void, Bloomberg reports…. Read more »
Thousands of opposition supporters took to the streets of Georgia’s capital Tbilisi on Sunday to demand snap polls after the ruling Georgian Dream party claimed victory in a parliamentary vote,… Read more »
Detentions have started at the Independence Square. The entrance to the Red Church is blocked. About 1000 protesters. A lot of police. pic.twitter.com/67fj1ih4B7 — Franak Viačorka (@franakviacorka) August 27,… Read more »
This is an extraordinarily tense moment in the United States as authoritarian states jeer at us, and friends pity us, says Kori Schake, director of foreign and defense policy at the… Read more »
The US can still influence democratic standards in Central Europe more effectively than any other external power because it is equipped both with the instruments of soft and hard power… Read more »