It might have gone unnoticed but the world’s top autocrats are teaming up. The combined force of China and Russia under Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping can pose a formidable threat to the free world. From Democracy Digest. Here is an excerpt:

This is big.

Never since World War II have the leading authoritarians of their time been so strategically aligned or personally close – at a time when both have an eye on their historic legacies, notes Frederick Kempe, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Atlantic Council:

The two leading authoritarians of our time have declared unprecedented common cause, perhaps even a de facto security alliance, with aspirations of shaping a new world order to replace the one fashioned by the United States and its partners after World War II. … A joint statement, from Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin tries to redefine the very meaning of democracy to embrace their repressive systems that censor media, prohibit dissent, lock up political opponents and support like-minded authoritarian systems.

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