On Monday, a court in Manila convicted Filipino American journalist Maria Ressa of something called “cyber libel.” Her case will have severe ramifications for press freedom not only in South Asia… Read more »
High-profile journalist Maria Ressa has been found guilty of libel in the Philippines’ in a case seen as a test of the country’s media freedom, the BBC reports. The former… Read more »
Charlemagne – Europe’s “Sinatra doctrine” on China https://t.co/QQDHFrbrUW — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) June 11, 2020 The European Union is treating China as a geopolitical chimera, The Economist observes: In 2019… Read more »
A dominant narrative that has come out of Turkey in recent years highlights how President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has consolidated control over the news media, according to analysts Andrew O’Donohue, Max… Read more »
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered widespread concern about democracy, with pundits like Larry Diamond claiming that democracy is now under imminent threat as authoritarian tendencies take over. The ability of authoritarian… Read more »
China is making fresh efforts to influence Chinese communities around the world to advance Beijing’s interests, requiring heightened vigilance from democratic countries, a new study says. A unit in China’s… Read more »
More than one million Uighurs have been disappeared into China’s internment camps in Xinjiang province according to UN estimates. An exclusive Deutsche Welle investigation (above) reveals how many were tried… Read more »
COVID-19 is not only spreading disease and economic pain, but also corruption scandals throughout Latin America. In many ways, this was a foreseen tragedy, say analysts Roberto Simon and Geert… Read more »
Governments around the world are turning to surveillance technologies to track the spread of COVID-19 and the impact on privacy and human rights could be long-lasting, notes Rachelle Faust, an… Read more »
Alongside the Cold War conflict with Soviet Russia, COVID-19 is “one of the two greatest tests of the U.S.-led international order since its founding,” according to Robert D. Blackwill,… Read more »