China’s Communist Party and its military are waging an ideological war against hostile Western ideas on the Internet. Through censorship, intimidation and repression, and with the help of an army… Read more »
U.S policy towards Russia should be “based on a hard calculation of national interests and an unsentimental, non-ideological assessment of how Russia might help us advance or thwart our goals,”… Read more »
Chinese authorities have formally arrested China‘s most prominent woman human rights lawyer, Wang Yu, accusing her of subversion, as part of a crackdown on activists who have helped people fight… Read more »
China’s ruling Communist Party appears to have postponed a key political meeting, in a move analysts said suggests that party leader Xi Jinping faces strong currents of dissent from within… Read more »
Ten years of China’s Belt and Road: what has $1tn achieved? https://t.co/p6cdPxq8Ws via @ft — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) October 23, 2023 China offers a coherent ideological alternative to the liberal-democratic… Read more »
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) operates a society-wide system of tech-enhanced authoritarian governance, facilitated by a sophisticated online censorship apparatus and internet-linked physical surveillance devices, says a new report from… Read more »
China’s Communist regime employs a variety of deceptive and coercive methods in its efforts to influence the international information environment, according to a new analysis. Beijing’s information manipulation spans the… Read more »
A “growing number of Chinese see the Party’s monopoly of the past as the root of their country’s current authoritarian malaise,” according to a new book by Ian Johnson, a… Read more »
Combatting autocratic powers like Russia and China may require the kind of “transformation in the exercise of American leadership” that emerged when Republicans and Democrats joined forces in a bipartisan… Read more »
Russia and China provide surge capacity to Africa’s kleptocratic networks, says a new report from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 showcased the… Read more »