Russia under Putin: 20 years of protests
Calling for “discipline and responsibility” in the face of the coronavirus, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Wednesday announced the postponement of a referendum next month on whether he… Read more »
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Covid-19’s latest victim: Hungary’s democracy
Covid-19 is about to claim a new victim: Hungary’s democracy, argues Dalibor Rohac, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. The country’s parliament is set to adopt a new law… Read more »
Safeguarding democracy from disinformation: China takes page from Russia’s playbook
China is taking a page from Russia’s disinformation playbook, observers suggest. The Chinese Communist Party has spent the past week publicly pushing conspiracy theories intended to cast doubt on the origins… Read more »
From cover-up to global donor: China’s Covid-19 sharp power play
China is sending doctors and medical supplies to Italy and other countries that have been hit hard by the coronavirus. WSJ’s Eric Sylvers in Milan explains how China is using… Read more »
COVID-19: A ‘breakthrough moment’ for China’s sharp power in global battle of narratives?
Tomorrow’s front page of The Financial Times (above) confirms that the UK is the latest democracy to adopt unprecedented measures in an effort to combat the coronavirus pandemic…. Read more »
COVID-19 highlights lack of democratic resilience
The number of countries “knocking on China’s door” will give Beijing’s soft power a boost, according to one expert, The Washington Post reports. “There is no European solidarity,” said Elias… Read more »
Why autocratic power grabs ‘may bode well’ for democracy
Even in an age of widespread disillusionment with democracy, a universally appealing alternative has yet to emerge, note analysts Adam E. Casey and Seva Gunitsky. The turn to personalism, for all the… Read more »
Why democracies handle crises better than authoritarians
An independent democracy advocacy organization is warning that authoritarian regimes are using the global coronavirus outbreak to suppress freedoms of speech and restrict fundamental rights outside of the scope of… Read more »
Understanding the age of mass protests: An escalating global trend
The United States has failed to develop a systematic approach to the global wave of protests, failing to shore up US capacity to achieve strategic ends, including shoring up global… Read more »
China’s ‘biological Chernobyl’ exposes absurdities of autocracy
The death of Li Wenliang has shaken China like an earthquake. He was a young doctor who was reprimanded by Chinese police for alerting colleagues to a new virus that has… Read more »