Chinese security services have arrested one of the country’s “most important public intellectuals,” a leading human rights watchdog reports, in the latest phase of a growing crackdown on pro-democracy bloggers, lawyers and other leading dissidents.
Ran Yunfei, an early …
The U.S. House of Representatives today passed a resolution expressing support for China’s leading dissident. But this week’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in his honor “is turning into a global showdown reminiscent of confrontations between the democratic world and …
Strikes and student protests have broken out in Cuba in what one exiled democracy advocate calls a “totally unprecedented” spate of unrest.
The regime faces the prospect of further discontent in the run-up to April’s Communist Party congress, the first …
December 1, 2010. Taiwan Democracy at Home and Abroad: Domestic Elections and Cross-Strait Relations. Speakers: Robert Sutter, visiting professor at Georgetown University; Liu Shih-chung, research fellow at the Taiwan Brain Trust; David Brown, adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins School …
After 500 years of Western hegemony, has China managed to replicate the several “killer apps” that gave the West the edge over the rest? Niall Ferguson believes so.
Several emerging economies have now developed most of the technological, economic, …
Beijing’s vitriolic response to Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel peace prize award has highlighted the ruling Communist Party’s refusal to brook any dissent, even from advocates of peaceful, evolutionary reform.
Some insight into the Orwellian distortions of the party’s formidable propaganda apparatus will …
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony will proceed after all even though the winner, jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo (above) remains in jail.
Today’s announcement ends speculation that the event would be cancelled after Beijing’s communist authorities denied family …
The public reaction to the hit-and-run killing of 22-year-old Li Qiming is “one of the most graphic examples yet of how China’s authoritarian politics is colliding with the relatively free public space created online.”
The ruling Communist party has …
Tuesday, November 16, 2010- 8:00 a.m. “2010 Forum on Restoring America’s Leadership of a Democratic World.”
The Foreign Policy Initiative will be holding its 2010 forum on Restoring America’s Leadership of a Democratic World on November 16. The event …
Human rights groups are calling on the Vietnamese government to release a prominent legal activist and end its latest crackdown on independent lawyers and other dissident voices.
Democracy advocate Cu Huy Ha Vu, 53, (left) was detained last week on …