How ‘totalitarian’ China subverts democracy globally
The decision to invite Beijing into the world economic system in 2001 has not led to anything like the more liberal or democratic China that world leaders had envisaged, only… Read more »
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The China challenge: Strategic urgency the prelude to strategic patience?
Cold War analogies aside, the world is in a battle for ideas, values, and the protection of sovereign democracies from outside influence and interference, argues Kevin Sheives – associate director… Read more »
China launches ‘gray-zone’ warfare to subdue Taiwan: CCP ‘reaping the whirlwind’ from too-sharp power
Months after eliminating a popular challenge to its rule in Hong Kong, China is turning to an even higher-stakes target: self-governing Taiwan. The island has been bracing for conflict with… Read more »
Democracies must adapt to ‘New Era of Great Power Competition’?
Are policies of engagement and enlargement that sought to encourage the spread of democracy and free markets appropriate in a new strategic context of great power competition? The COVID-19 pandemic… Read more »
China Vs. Democracy: The Greatest Game
The great question facing the free world is how to deal with China in this new era of competition, argues analyst Michael Auslin. One answer is provided in a new “handbook”… Read more »
Great power rivalry: A ‘specific sort of ideological competition’
China is ramping up its ‘sharp power’ efforts to discredit democracy, but brittle autocratic states are “Titanics,” supposedly unsinkable, yet essentially vulnerable, and are in any case unable to… Read more »
Global public ‘not buying’ China’s sharp power propaganda
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 »
Can democracies win the new great power competition?
The nature of great power competition in the 21st century will shape the world, some observers suggest. So should it be the strategic priority of foreign policy? Given the current… Read more »
Democracies disadvantaged in sharp power competition
The international reputation of the United States, the world’s worst-hit country, has suffered over its handling of the covid-19 pandemic — but China, its main geostrategic rival, has struggled to… Read more »
To address rising authoritarian China, put Beijing on the ideological defensive
The U.S. should avoid a positive reset of relations with China in the event of a change of administration, argues Aaron L. Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at… Read more »