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 …



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