July 15, 2026

Testing the Limits: China and Russia’s Authoritarian Influence at Scale...

By Kevin Sheives, Alexander Cooley, Caroline Costello, William Nee, and Florindo Chivucute Table of Contents Executive Summary A New, More Permissive Context for Authoritarian Influence at Scale / Kevin Sheives...

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January 14, 2026

Twenty-Second Annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture | Leopoldo...

05:45 PM - 07:00 PM

The 2025 Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World will be delivered by Leopoldo López, a Venezuelan prodemocracy activist and cofounder of the World Liberty Congress.

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August 11, 2025

China Salon Event Recap: How the PRC Is Using AI to Censor, Surveil, and...

In China today, AI can censor a million online posts in less than a second and generate convincing propaganda at a keystroke. At the latest in the China Salon series of events hosted by the National Endowment...

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July 10, 2025

The CCP’s Global Censorship Campaign – and How NED’s Partners Break...

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is among the world’s most systematic suppressors of free speech. For many PRC citizens and diaspora members—not to mention citizens of other countries...

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