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How to resist the authoritarian surge
There is still a “sort of love of liberalism all over the world, even in places like Russia and China…It is obviously there in Hong Kong”, expert.
As coronavirus threatens legitimacy, China targets victims and critics
The rest of the world has asked China for coronavirus compensation. While this is happening, China is clamping down on voices at home seeking answers.
Falling for China’s Fake Covid-19 News Was Dangerous and Preventable
Coronavirus: “everyone – the US government, the WHO, journalists, public health officials, and others – should have known better than to trust Beijing’s claims”.
How China exploits the pandemic it helped cause
China has been blamed for lighting up the coronavirus fire. A new perspective examines how it is now exploiting it to its own advantage.
‘Beginning of the end’ for Hong Kong? Two systems ‘dead as a Dodo’
Hong Kong pro-democracy activists are looking to seize opportunities to counter crack-down, Beijing a plan to end the “one country, two systems” framework.
Autocratic assertion meets democratic dereliction
During coronavirus, autocrats and would be ones are finding opportunities for tyranny, insisting that this is to protect public health, Economist.
Ai Fen: The Whistleblowing Doctor Missing in China
It is time that the world unite and hold China responsible for the abysmal human rights record it enforces in the second biggest global economy.
Don’t pave the way for authoritarian spheres of influence
To prevent Beijing and Moscow from becoming the dominant powers in their region, Washington must reject the advice to cut loose vulnerable frontline allies.
The democracy undercutting China’s claims to superiority
The world is battling one of the worst pandemics in history yet China, where the coronavirus outbreak started, is using the situation to fight America.