Under the guise of ‘guiding public opinion’, a policy concept that dates back to the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) justifies its manipulation of information… Read more »
Putin’s and Xi’s exploitation of the autocrat’s playbook is posing profound challenges for democratic societies across continents, according to a new analysis. Moscow and Beijing have some significant advantages over… Read more »
A Communist Party congress that is poised to anoint Xi Jinping as China’s top leader for another five years will open in Beijing on Oct. 16, officials announced on Tuesday. Party… Read more »
An aggressive new generation of diplomatic “wolf warriors” is set to advance Xi Jinping’s mission to mobilize developing countries to defend Beijing from Western criticism and advance China’s authoritarian influence… 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 »
Authorities across China are tightening security and ramping up surveillance of dissidents ahead of the Tiananmen massacre anniversary, Radio Free Asia’s Gao Feng reports. Ten years after the death of… Read more »
U.S. officials detected considerable interference by autocratic powers China, Russia and Iran during the 2020 electoral cycle, Newsweek reports: During the George Floyd demonstrations in June, DHS reported that Russia, China and Iran… Read more »
Many authoritarian regimes have a common interest in not merely burnishing their own images internationally, but in sowing distrust in democracy and the rule of law generally, argues Shanthi Kalathil,… Read more »
China is attempting to re-brand its Confucius Institutes following a worldwide backlash against the centers, analyst Zachary Evans writes for National Review: Confucius Institutes, which are present on dozens of U.S…. Read more »
The news on Friday morning that Australia is currently being hit by a major cyber attack targeting all levels of government, political parties and businesses has focussed attention on national… Read more »