Human Rights Challenges in China

March 5th marks the beginning of the 12th National People’s Congress, where Communist Party leader Xi Jinping is expected to assume full power as President and head of the Central Military Commission. Ahead of the congress, influential activists and scholars …

China’s dissident writers – ‘plucking feathers from a frog’?

“I think Kafka could not have written anything more absurd and unbelievable than this,” said Liu Xia (right), the wife of the jailed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo….

….when she described [

Free union elections for Foxconn workers – precedent or PR?

China’s largest private sector employer is planning to hold “genuinely representative” trade union elections in an attempt to address growing worker discontent and prevent further outbreaks of unofficial labor militancy.

If the polls go ahead as planned

Can democracies challenge the ‘League of Authoritarian Gentlemen’?

Are the West’s democracies prepared to challenge what one analyst calls “Eurasia’s new authoritarian architecture”?

“For years now, the United States and its allies in Europe and Asia have been talking about the importance of common efforts to promote human …

Turkey views autocratic SCO as alternative to democratic EU?

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is actively considering membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a group that’s been described as an authoritarian international for Eurasia’s illiberal regimes, according to Eurasia Daily Monitor analyst Emrullah Uslu:

When asked to clarify

China at the Tipping Point?

Many analysts believe that the resilience of the PRC’s authoritarian regime is approaching its limits, as a result of deep changes that have been taking place in China. The state apparatus is still strong, but it must deal …

Boost civil society to engage China in global governance

Compared with the other emerging powers in the so-called BRIC group (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), China has under-participated in global governance. The low supply of China’s contributions results from the limited interest of the Chinese authorities and limited capacity

Will Beijing veto Korean unification?

The rising probability of a democratic transition in China may in turn facilitate change in North Korea and reunification of the Korean peninsula, says a prominent analyst.

Drawing on the recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee research report on Chinese-North Korean

Chinese dissident Gao Zhisheng seen by family

“Family members of one of China’s most prominent dissidents visited him in a prison in the western region of Xinjiang this month,” The New York Times reports:

The group, Human Rights in China, based in New York, said

Questions for the next US secretary of state

 

 

More than a year after Egyptian authorities raided the offices of the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute, and Freedom House, their Egyptian and international staff are still on trial (above). What will you do to encourage