Tag: authoritarian regimes
Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activist Lam Wing-Kee, Who Fled to Taiwan After Defying Beijing, Dies
Lam Wing-kee, founder of Hong Kong's Causeway Bay Books, recently passed away in Taiwan. The sequence...
After Lam Wing-kee’s Death, Reporters Without Borders Urges Sweden to Free Gui Minhai from China
Eleven years have passed since the Causeway Bay Books incident. Lam Wing-kee, the bookstore's founder...
Why Beijing and Pyongyang Keep Clinging to Each Other Despite Mutual Distrust
By Sheng Xue, Commentary Following Xi Jinping's two-day visit to Pyongyang, state-run Chinese and...
Xi Jinping Vanishes for Nine Days as CCP Fails to Report a May Politburo Meeting
The CCP's ruling Politburo, the 24-member body that sits at the apex of Party decision-making, typically...
Xi Jinping’s Expansionism Has Unified the Democratic World Against Beijing
For years, Beijing's strategy rested on a single assumption: that democratic governments were too fractured...
How the Wuchang Uprising of 1911 Mirrors the CCP’s Coming Collapse
The Wuchang Uprising of 1911 that destroyed China's last imperial dynasty was triggered by a bomb-maker's...
Taiwan Promotes ‘2P1R’ Strategy to Strengthen Democratic Defenses Against Transnational Repression
Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently held its first “International Symposium on Countering Transnational...
Rubio Targets Families of Hostile Regimes, Signaling End of Safe Haven in America’
Recently, an official announcement that has shaken authoritarian regimes worldwide was formally issued...
Xi Jinping’s ‘Achilles’ Heel:’ Why Loyalty in China’s Military Has Become His Biggest Fear
On the afternoon of March 7, Xi Jinping attended a plenary meeting of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA...
Trump Signals Cuba Is Next After the Fall of Iran
With Operation Epic Fury still underway, President Trump directed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to handle...
International Law Binds the Law-Abiding, Iran Acts Freely
Commentary After the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran, Spain refused...
State Department Launches Freedom.gov to Smash China’s Great Firewall
The U.S. State Department has completed development of Freedom.gov, a privacy-focused application explicitly...