How COVID-19 saps China’s Deep State
China’s political system was instrumental both in plunging the country into the COVID-19 crisis and aiding its recovery, but its pandemic management has not endeared it abroad, notes analyst Richard… Read more »
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Upgrade, customize international aid to counter Covid’s impact on democracy
The Covid-19 pandemic is having distinctive political effects across different types of regime, according to a new analysis. Policy responses need to be tailored to contrasting outcomes and risks in… Read more »
‘Dealing with the Dragon’: China as a transatlantic challenge
One of the most deeply upsetting charts I’ve ever seen. From this harrowing AP investigative report about China forcing birth control on Uighurs in Xinjiang to suppress their population growth:… Read more »
Challenging the ‘Retrenchment Syndrome’
Retrenchment may hold emotional appeal for Americans tired of protracted military commitments abroad, but blind adherence to an orthodoxy based on emotion rather than reason would make Americans less safe… Read more »
China’s malign designs on democracy
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 »
Universal values at stake as autocrats mock ‘fragmented democracy’
This is an extraordinarily tense moment in the United States as authoritarian states jeer at us, and friends pity us, says Kori Schake, director of foreign and defense policy at the… Read more »
Has Covid consolidated Xi’s rule? China’s three strategic options
There is a growing body of evidence, assembled and interpreted by talented China experts, that the Chinese government is indeed aiming for global power and perhaps global primacy over the… Read more »
‘The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life’ lifts the veil
As the case of an Australian student, 20-year-old Drew Pavlou, who carried on a program of activism including stunts like posting a “Covid-19 Biohazard” warning in front of his university’s… Read more »
Pondering pandemic’s political potency
The world’s leading democracies will not be judged by how they initially responded to Covid-19, but by their success in post-crisis reconstruction, according to a leading analyst. We always knew… Read more »
How to resist the authoritarian surge
In 2019, Brookings Institution senior fellow Robert Kagan authored a long-form essay in the Washington Post in which he argued that the era of the strongman is back. Authoritarianism is once again… Read more »