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 ruling Communist Party (CCP) government, concentrates local decision-making power in Tibet in the hands of party officials who deny fundamental rights to residents of both Han Chinese and Tibetan… Read more »
Taxpayer money is being used to ‘smuggle Chinese ideology’ into Australia via community language schools, reports suggest. Students are using textbooks from the CCP’s United Front which say the South… Read more »
#Authoritarianism is on the wane because it has not been delivering the goods, @TheEconomist notes. Asian admiration for #China’s model of governance has been diminished by President Xi Jinping’s blunders…. Read more »
A coordinated foreign influence campaign linked to the Chinese government is using social media to undermine confidence in Australia’s democratic system, according to researchers at Canberra defence thinktank. The network… Read more »
Only when accountability and democracy have arrived can China hope to begin the process of addressing the Cultural Revolution’s lingering injustices, says democracy activist Nathan Law. Tania Branigan’s searching ‘Red… Read more »
Less than 9% of people in Poland believe that the country’s courts function better now than they did before the current government came to power in 2015, while over half… Read more »
The chairman of the newly established congressional select committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Representative Mike Gallagher, revealed that Disney CEO Bob Iger and NBA commissioner Adam Silver would be… Read more »
Has China reached an authoritarian tipping point? A new series from Newsweek uncovers what China’s Communist Party is doing overseas to achieve its stated goal of superpower status and global… 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 »