West rebukes China at U.N. rights forum
Western powers called on China on Friday to restore basic legal rights in Hong Kong and open up to scrutiny its remote Xinjiang region where more than one million ethnic… Read more »
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China’s new authoritarian ideology: Panopticon is already here?
Technological leadership from democracies has “never been more imperative…if we want to make sure that Western values are baked into the technologies of the future,” @USCTO tells @andersen https://t.co/tMALrRwGo3 —… Read more »
China: The ‘Long Shadow’ of Xinjiang
Civil society groups in Muslim-majority countries are increasingly uncomfortable with their governments’ reticence to criticize China’s ‘cultural genocide’ in Xinjiang, notes analyst Nithin Coca. Activists are organizing boycotts, protests, and… Read more »
In ‘high stakes strategy’, free societies can stand up to China
China’s ruling Communist Party rejects universalism as a Western concept but is substituting its own counter-universal values based on empire and party that Westerners have trouble understanding, argues analyst Didi Kirsten… Read more »
Saving liberal democracy from China’s non-existential threat
Saving Liberal Democracy by Chris Patten @ProSyn https://t.co/eNHd0KpH2E — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 26, 2020 Hong Kong police have been accused of re-writing history over their account of an attack… Read more »
China ‘eliding responsibility’ with Hong Kong conspiracy theories
Akram Keram, a program officer on China at the National Endowment for Democracy, testified on Hong Kong’s struggle for democracy before the Canadian House of Commons Special Committee on… Read more »
The ‘real Mulan’ vs. China’s ‘enemy mentality’
BBC News – Agnes Chow: Hong Kong activist hailed as the ‘real Mulan’ https://t.co/xakJtBE44i — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 12, 2020 Agnes Chow, a 23-year-old pro-democracy activist in Hong… Read more »
China’s Grand Strategy: A ‘Carl Schmitt moment’?
New RAND research describes four possible scenarios for China in 2050: 🇨🇳 triumphant China 🇨🇳 ascendant China 🇨🇳 stagnant China 🇨🇳 imploding Chinahttps://t.co/98Tb97F1Tb — RAND Corporation (@RANDCorporation) August 3,… Read more »
Can alliance of democracies counter China’s ‘bankrupt, totalitarian ideology’?
In his July 23 address at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that 50 years of engaging China had failed, denounced Chinese leader Xi Jinping… Read more »
Backlash prompts China to re-brand its ‘sharp power’ influence ops
China is attempting to re-brand its Confucius Institutes following a worldwide backlash against the centers, analyst Zachary Evans writes for National Review: Confucius Institutes, which are present on dozens of U.S…. Read more »