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 »
Geneva discords – China and America prepare for a human-rights showdown at the UN https://t.co/kgYRrYu3QK — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) January 10, 2022 Intel Corp. removed references to the Chinese region of Xinjiang… Read more »
Seventeen African countries were invited to join the virtual “Summit for Democracy” due to take place this week, including Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo, notes John J Stremlau, Honorary… Read more »
The new strategic competition requires “rebuilding traditions of democratic cooperation across party lines in recognition that the United States will not be able to meet the China challenge if U.S. political… Read more »
North Africa Faces the Pandemic: Carnegie’s Middle East Program invites you to an online discussion on the pandemic’s effect on vulnerable populations in Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco & Tunisia. Acting Sada editor-in-chief Rafiah Al-Talei… 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 »
China has possibly committed “genocide” in its treatment of Uighurs and other minority Muslims in its western region of Xinjiang, a bipartisan commission of the U.S. Congress said in a… Read more »
For all the economic successes of countries like Ethiopia and Rwanda, three major questions about authoritarian development in Africa remain, Nic Cheeseman writes for the Carnegie Endowment: First, there is… Read more »
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 »
The four-day plenum of China’s Communist Party (CCP) is being held amid a deteriorating global economy, historically tense ties between China and the US, and an increasingly difficult international environment… Read more »