Chinese media’s Great Leap Backwards
Ten years after Xi Jinping took the helm in China, Europe’s democracies have become more aligned on how to deal with Beijing, according to a new analysis. However, approaches towards… Read more »
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Is ‘Great Power Competition’ an illusion?
Although some aspects of the Cold War hold true today, such as the geopolitical rivalry between two powerful countries with dramatically different political systems and ideologies, the integration and interdependence… Read more »
Democracies face ‘greatest challenge’ since Cold War
Democracies and the rules-based international order are facing their “greatest challenge” since the Cold War, said President Tsai Ing-wen (above), calling for greater cooperation by democracies to counter authoritarian regimes…. Read more »
Autocrats subverting UN human rights system
The Chinese and Russian governments are collaborating to undermine human rights accountability mechanisms in the United Nations, says a report from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), POLITICO reports. Beijing… Read more »
How an “AI-tocracy” emerges
China’s government has increasingly deployed AI-driven facial-recognition technology to suppress dissent, been successful at limiting protest, and spurred the development of better AI-based facial-recognition tools and other forms of software,… Read more »
World’s strongmen ‘bend social media to their will’
The world’s autocrats continue to bend social media to their will, according to Samuel Woolley, the author of “Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity.” Despots have… Read more »
Cuba still in crisis two years after historic 11J protests
Two years after unprecedented anti-government protests rocked communist Cuba, the deep economic and social problems that drove people to challenge a government notoriously intolerant of dissent have only gotten worse,… Read more »
Liberal democracy no longer ‘the standard model’ in strategic competition battle of narratives
Europe has entered a “battle of narratives” with competitors that do not adhere to liberal democratic values, according to EU vice president Maroš Šefčovič. “The time that liberal democracy… Read more »
Ukraine’s killing fields’ three big lessons for democracies
Ukraine’s killing fields hold three big lessons for democracies regarding the technological transformation of conflict, says a special report from The Economist: The first is that the battlefield is becoming… Read more »
Nationalism + Islam = ideology for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
The government has announced plans to sanction Iranian officials behind what it called hostile activities in the UK, The BBC reports: The foreign secretary said since January 2022 there had… Read more »