Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke of a “strengthened political mutual trust and international coordination” with Belarus after he met with the European country’s president in Beijing on Monday, according to… Read more »
Ahead of the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week in San Francisco, where U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to meet, a study comparing views of China… Read more »
There are many risks that Generative AI pose to democracies, analysts suggest: The opaqueness of AI algorithms at the back end may suppress legitimate political discourse while favoring established opinions … Read more »
EPIC: UN heads turn & PLO rep’s eyes bulge in stunned disbelief as Palestinian hero Mosab Hasan Yousef, son of Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, calls out Palestinian Authority oppression… Read more »
Will artificial intelligence end democracy? In a new special package on AI and democracy, top experts weigh in on what a fast-developing technology that promises superhuman intelligence means for humanity… Read more »
Admiration for autocracy draws on the “myth of benevolent dictatorship” which is built on three flimsy pillars, notes Brian Klaas, an associate professor of global politics at University College London:… Read more »
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 »
Chinese President Xi Jinping has promulgated a new law on foreign affairs to legitimize tough measures that Beijing is taking against the “bullying” of the “hegemonic West,” notes Dr. Willy… Read more »
“The world’s long freedom recession may be bottoming out,” according to the latest Freedom House report. The 2022 survey found that global improvements in freedom nearly equaled global declines, researchers… Read more »
Russia’s war in Ukraine has drawn Western allies closer together, but it has not unified the world’s democracies in the way U.S. President Joe Biden might have hoped for when… Read more »