From Democracy Digest. Here is an excerpt:

The advanced democracies are inaugurating a tougher approach toward Chinese inbound investment and generally adopting more hawkish foreign policies toward Beijing’s sharp power, says a leading analyst.

They are responding to authoritarian regimes’ efforts to cripple democracies and threaten fundamental freedoms, says a sponsor of the proposed Madeleine K. Albright Democracy in the 21^st Century Act.

The relatively new phenomenon of economic coercion, especially in the metastatic form now seen in Beijing’s punitive actions against Lithuania, will require new defensive tactics, adds Martin Hála, director of AcaMedia and Sinopsis.cz, and coeditor of Investigative Journalism in China.

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