The spread of Chinese firms like Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu raises concerns that the Chinese model of digital authoritarianism is creeping abroad, putting the future of the Internet at risk, notes… Read more »
The United States should adopt a new foreign policy focused on defending and expanding the ranks of democracies around the world, argues Michael H Fuchs, a senior fellow at the… Read more »
Authorities on the democratic island of Taiwan say they are battling an influx of disinformation from sources backed by the Chinese Communist Party, ahead of local elections later this month,… Read more »
“Democracy’s Surprising Resilience” is the focus of an article in the National Endowment for Democracy‘s Journal of Democracy. Steve Levitsky and Lucan Way write that authoritarians have found it difficult to… 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 »
The days when democracy was considered the only viable political regime are over, according to a leading analyst. “This process of a declining Liberal West, along with its increasing inability… Read more »
The democratic, relatively prosperous and largely pro-U.S. nature of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has been a strategic asset for the United States for decades. Yet, the region today… Read more »
President Joseph Biden used the occasion of this week’s Summit for Democracy to announce a plan to spend an additional $690 million on his Presidential Initiative for Democratic Renewal, an… Read more »
Is the world standing on the threshold of a democratic comeback? After years of relentless bad news, the latest annual global report on the health of democracy offers hope, according… Read more »
China’s Covid policy shift is undermining the regime’s social compact and the legitimacy of the ruling Communist Party, experts suggest. “The zero-Covid policy has impacted the poor more than the… Read more »