Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has resigned from an honorary fellowship at a college at Britain’s Cambridge University after it questioned her commitment to the protection of human rights… Read more »
New RAND research describes four possible scenarios for China in 2050: 🇨🇳 triumphant China 🇨🇳 ascendant China 🇨🇳 stagnant China 🇨🇳 imploding Chinahttps://t.co/98Tb97F1Tb — RAND Corporation (@RANDCorporation) August 3,… Read more »
In his July 23 address at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that 50 years of engaging China had failed, denounced Chinese leader Xi Jinping… Read more »
At a time when the world’s democracies are on a back foot against a pandemic and creeping authoritarianism, a new study finds hope in Latin America. The reason is a… Read more »
Mass graves recently discovered in the Sudanese capital Khartoum could constitute new evidence of war crimes against former president Omar al-Bashir, lawyers and rights advocates told Middle East Eye. Sudan’s… Read more »
“No to Gaza, no to Lebanon, my life only for #Iran.” Anti Islamic Republic protests in Behbahan, #Iran. https://t.co/1y6M3sOzub — Alireza Nader علیرضا نادر (@AlirezaNader) July 16, 2020 Iran… Read more »
TODAY: Iran’s judiciary spokesman announced that November protesters Mohammad Rajabi, Saeed Tamjidi and Amirhossein Moradi are officially on death row. Iranians on social media are fighting back. We hear them… Read more »
Lessons from the Polish Opposition by Jacek Rostowski @ProSyn https://t.co/gqWHgarDUK — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 13, 2020 Although Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski did not come out on top… Read more »
The U.S. Department of Energy has determined that Cuba and Venezuela are “foreign adversaries” that might target the U.S. electrical grid, The Miami Herald reports: The executive order aims… Read more »
Germany, which took over the European Union’s rotating presidency on July 1, will put democratic values at the heart of the bloc’s economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, a policy… Read more »