China has launched the Global Civilization Initiative (GCI) — the last of a trio of Xi Jinping’s ideological frameworks — as being central to “cultivating the garden of world civilization,”… Read more »
As democratic norms erode in Tunisia, a bipartisan group of US lawmakers wants to ensure proposed aid cuts don’t undermine the very civil society actors seeking to reverse the North African… Read more »
Thousands of ethnic minority Muslims surrounded a mosque in southwestern China over the weekend in a last-ditch effort to prevent what they said was an attempt by authorities to remove… Read more »
As Twitter limits access to a tool to analyse conversations on the platform, researchers will be deprived of information that sheds light on political hate speech and incitement to violence…. Read more »
For years, industry, governments, and civil society have grappled with how to address the potential harm from state media while protecting people’s right to information in the digital domain, note… Read more »
The United States has lost influence to China in Southeast Asia over the past five years, a leading Australian think-tank said today. According to a report released by Sydney’s Lowy Institute,… Read more »
Last Saturday, just hours after Xi Jinping sipped tea with Emmanuel Macron while calling for peace in Ukraine, fighter jets flew across the Taiwan Strait in a display of Chinese… Read more »
Democracy generates economic dividends by aligning incentives and spontaneous solutions. That at least was the assertion of the Myanmar Economic Resilience and Reform Plan (MERRP), which the National League for… Read more »
Working with African partners will help identify and expose China’s disinformation and untoward influence in the subcontinent, the University of Notre Dame’s Joshua Eisenman writes in China’s Media Propaganda in… Read more »
It’s obvious by now: sanctions on Russia haven’t lived up to expectations, says analyst Ben Judah. Russia has proved much more adept at evading sanctions because it is manipulating… Read more »