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“We need to figure out how to support others around the world with their vision and their aspirations and their democratic goals, and in doing so, that is really good for American interests,” says NEDemocracy President Damon M. Wilson at Freedom and Prosperity Center’s #GlobalProsperityForum.

"A democratic response to techno-authoritarianism must center—rather than circumvent—human agency, deliberation, and connection." Read more in Forum @ NED's recent report: buff.ly/3zOMnib

The CCP is engaged in a sprawling campaign to undermine democracy. Governments too often can be lumbering or weak in response. We need to "look to civil society for the creativity and skill to keep the CCP on its heels," NEDemocracy's Kevin Sheives explained. buff.ly/4kmyAlt

Without a concerted response from democratic societies, the "network of foundational human rights treaties and systems for monitoring and enforcement" can be quickly broken down. Read the report by Dr. Rana Siu Inboden of Strauss Center: buff.ly/44u7kJa

In Data-Centric Authoritarianism: How China's Development of Frontier Technologies Could Globalize Repression, Valentin Weber at DGAP explores four frontier technologies and their potential to enable new forms of tech-enabled repression. Read here: buff.ly/3EA1XAd

The free world needs a democratic network to counter authoritarian “sharp power.” ⁦peter pomerantsev⁩ on.ft.com/441GCu2

In his testimony before the U.S.-China Commission on “An Axis of Autocracy? China’s Relations with Russia, Iran, and North Korea” to lay out the stakes, Christopher Walker at NEDemocracy highlighted China's expanding influence beyond borders. 🧵 Read the full testimony: buff.ly/41qq4KB

U.S.-China Commission Christopher Walker NEDemocracy “China has used a web of relationships with other autocracies to enhance its leverage, where possible to achieve multiplier effects, and more generally guide the global rules of the road in a direction more friendly to the CCP's interests, values, and preferences.”

"By just about any measure, a comparison of South Korea’s free and prosperous society with the dismal, poverty-stricken North Korean example lays bare the stark contrast between freedom and dictatorship" - see this new NEDemocracy essay 👇👇👇ned.org/freedoms-frame…

"Venezuela under Maduro [and Chavez] is part of a larger pattern of unfree systems draining prosperity and opportunity from their societies, often leaving their people in poverty and causing them to vote with their feet" - see this new NEDemocracy essay ned.org/freedoms-frame…

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“The CCP wants to shape a world in which foreign leaders defer to Beijing’s revisionist ambitions over the heads of their citizens. Helping nations pursue effective self-government is a strategic counter to those designs”-cogent piece by Daniel Twining washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer…

The Russo-Ukrainian War represents an existential clash between democracy and autocracy, as deep cooperation between Russia and China illustrates. A Ukrainian loss, Serhii Plokhy argues in new Journal of Democracy issue, could endanger democracy across the globe journalofdemocracy.org/articles/david…

I'm looking forward to taking part in this event April 28-"Digital Authoritarianism and Strategies to Promote a Democratic Digital Future"- at Hoover Institution. Speakers include: Beth Kerley Forum @ NED Valentin Weber Charles Mok 莫乃光. Online registration info here: stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Cuba’s dictatorship survives by silencing the truth. In this op-ed, former Senator Mel Martinez & Damon M. Wilson make the case for restoring U.S. support for Cuba’s independent journalists—before the regime’s stranglehold of censorship tightens. 🔗ned.org/op-ed-when-fre…

The rising challenges posed by "data-centric authoritarianism" - thread on relevant Forum @ NED work 👇👇👇

Today, surveillance tech from PRC companies is present in at least 80 countries. Valentin Weber writes that with every new country that takes up the tools and tactics of the repressive, CCP-led state, “the world looks more and more like China.” 🧵 bit.ly/3H0ddHa

Earlier this year, I testified at the U.S.-China Commission, arguing China has become the “keystone of a global network of autocracies,” deepening its enabler role with Russia but also Iran, & N. Korea, making the authoritarian whole stronger than any one of its parts uscc.gov/sites/default/…