Why dissidents matter
Dissidents in China, Hong Kong and elsewhere have noted the appalling consequences in the last century when liberal democracies failed to stand up sufficiently strongly against totalitarian regimes, notes Oxford… Read more »
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China ‘in darkest period’ since Tiananmen: ‘Crimes against humanity – and possibly genocide’
China has possibly committed “genocide” in its treatment of Uighurs and other minority Muslims in its western region of Xinjiang, a bipartisan commission of the U.S. Congress said in a… Read more »
How Hong Kong’s democracy movement resists ‘mainlandization’
“They are heroes because they were fighting for democracy and civil society with no real hope that they would achieve their aims,” celebrated Chinese artist Ai Weiwei says of Hong… Read more »
China’s ‘new Comintern’ struggles for minds and influence
The job of the International Department of China’s ruling Communist Party is to win support among foreign political parties by cultivating what’s been called a “new Comintern,” the Economist observes…. 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 »
How ‘summit for democracy’ can rally allies against autocracies
The U.S.-led countries of the trans-Atlantic alliance and their democratic East Asian allies lack a strategy for dealing with their most formidable competitor: China. But the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)… Read more »
Magnitsky has become a verb: EU sanctions will ‘Magnitsky’ human rights abusers
The European Union has officially adopted a new Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime that will implement travel bans and asset freezes against those found responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity, torture,… Read more »
China exploiting pandemic to pose ideological challenge to West
China’s ideological challenge against liberal democracy seems orders of magnitude more effective than anything Soviet propaganda of the Cold War era could hope to achieve. As the U.S. sinks ever-deeper into… Read more »
Five pillars of a new democracy agenda
A pro-democracy foreign policy does not entail subordinating U.S. foreign policy objectives to human rights imperatives as any new administration will need to weigh these concerns alongside its full array… 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 »