Democratic outlier India’s ‘last best chance’
When it comes to the war in Ukraine, India is something of an outlier among the world’s democracies, notes Lisa Curtis, Director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center… Read more »
Winning the Web: Is China ‘miles ahead’ in global race for influence?
Authorities across China are tightening security and ramping up surveillance of dissidents ahead of the Tiananmen massacre anniversary, Radio Free Asia’s Gao Feng reports. Ten years after the death of… Read more »
Blinken calls China ‘most serious long-term’ threat to world order, universal values
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday outlined competing visions for the future of the international community: one centered around China’s increasingly aggressive and expansive authoritarian one-party state, and… Read more »
Open Technology Fund can counter digital authoritarianism, says new report
A new ASPI report demonstrates that in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, social media posts by Chinese diplomats on US-owned platforms almost exclusively blamed the US, NATO and the… Read more »
Ukraine’s resilient civil society bridging the humanitarian gap
On April 5, at lunchtime, 43-year-old Eliot Higgins, founder of the independent Bellingcat group of online investigators, was in the middle of “geolocating” an appalling video of Russian atrocities… Read more »
Liberal democracies ‘playing defense’?
“My defense of democracy,” writes Stein Ringen, author of How Democracies Live, “grows out of a conviction that if we and our children cannot live under reasonably well-functioning democratic rule,… Read more »
Sorry, China, but economic interdependence fosters democracy
New research explains how economic interdependence fosters alliances and democracy – and why China’s economic might lacks political clout, The Economist reports. From 1980 to 2010, the more economically interdependent… Read more »
Deciphering Turkey’s geopolitical balancing and anti-Westernism
Does the West still serve as the point of reference for Turkey’s domestic transformation? This has historically (over the past two centuries) been the case, with the West/Europe serving as… Read more »
Prepare for instability in Russia
If Vladimir Putin loses power, as a result of the war in Ukraine, Russia’s future looks hopeful, argues Anders Åslund, a senior fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum and author… Read more »
Putin’s hold on Russia: The beginning of the end?
The goals of Russia’s invasion keep getting smaller. But its depleted military is still failing to make major advances, and time is on Ukraine’s side, Josh Holder, Marco Hernandez and Jon Huang write for… Read more »