China’s Václav Havel moment?
China’s Covid policy shift is undermining the regime’s social compact and the legitimacy of the ruling Communist Party, experts suggest. “The zero-Covid policy has impacted the poor more than the… Read more »
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China’s claim of superiority over democracy ‘lies in tatters’
China’s A4 protests have “far exceeded” the Democracy Wall Movement of which Wei Jingsheng was a leading figure in the late ’70s, he tells Matt Pottinger, chairman of The Foundation… Read more »
China at ‘tricky crossroads’ as social contract undergoes paradigm shift.
China is at a tricky crossroads where its social contract is undergoing a paradigm shift. Its populace is among the world’s most digitally connected, but is also one of… Read more »
West should abandon efforts to integrate revisionist China
The West should recreate a strong liberal bloc to resist revisionist China’s authoritarian aggression, says Aaron Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and the author of… Read more »
‘Explaining the Unthinkable’: How dissent grows in China
While the protests in China were initially born out of shared dissatisfaction against the COVID-19 policy, people soon found themselves going into different directions, ideologically and physically, notes Xiaoyu Lu,… Read more »
China’s global media offensive aims to shape global narratives
“China has built a giant influence and information apparatus,” Joshua Kurlantzick writes in his new book, Beijing’s Global Media Offensive: China’s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World. While… Read more »
Xi’s first real test, as China’s ‘rights subconscious’ resurfaces
A nationwide surge of protest has sent a stunning sign that even after one decade under Xi’ Jinping’s autocratic rule, a small and mostly youthful part of the population dares… Read more »
Long odds facing China’s dramatic dissenters
Protests against Covid lockdowns have rippled across China, among the most widespread there in decades. Some Chinese people, many of them young, are fed up with the government’s lockdowns, mandatory… Read more »
China Nexus: CCP rejects democracy versus authoritarianism narrative
President Xi Jinping used the occasion of his meeting with US President Joe Biden to deny that the “democracy versus authoritarianism” narrative is the defining feature of today’s world, claiming… Read more »
How to stop China killing human rights at the U.N.
Following October’s daring Sitong bridge protest (above) against Xi Jinping’s autocratic rule, copycat demonstrations have since spread to more than 350 campuses around the world, organized by Chinese students who… Read more »