People with ties to China’s law enforcement agencies conducted the largest known covert digital influence operation aimed at discrediting the West and promoting Beijing’s agenda across more than 50 social… Read more »
President Biden has made it his mission to wage what he momentously calls “the battle between democracy and autocracy.” But what to do when the ones he believes are undermining… Read more »
The spread of misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information (MDM) online has become one of the most pressing issues of our time, according to analysts Gabrielle Lim and Samantha Bradshaw. Around the… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
There seems little to celebrate on World Press Freedom Day, given how journalists find themselves under constant assault and press freedom is being eroded around the world, The Washington Post… Read more »
Central Asia is becoming more authoritarian before our very eyes: after the power grab completed during the pandemic, the region’s elites are now introducing a series of measures designed to… Read more »
Tunisia’s tragic descent from Arab Spring democracy into dictatorship is continuing with the arrest and detention of Rached Ghannouchi, the world’s most important Islamic democrat and the spiritual leader of… Read more »