About the event China’s Communist Party (CCP) has heralded the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a global economic stimulus project that will provide great benefits to BRI partners. What has been masked, however,...

I want to thank Andy and Mike Manatos and the Oxi Day Foundation for giving this important Oxi Courage Award to Liu Xia, a Chinese poet and photographer and a woman of unparalleled moral courage. I had the rare privilege of meeting Liu Xia last month in New York when we were both there to take part...

Sabrina Tsai is a professional staff member at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China currently chaired by Senator Marco Rubio (FL) and Representative Chris Smith (NJ). She has handled the Commission's governance,...

Panel 2: About the event In recent years, China and Russia have invested significant...

Maeve Whelan-Wuest is a senior research assistant and project coordinator in the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at The Brookings Institution. In this capacity, her research focuses on governance and security issues pertaining...

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Testimony to U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Shanthi Kalathil, Director, International Forum for Democratic Studies May 4, 2017

How to Facilitate Mutual Understanding Within Movements and Maintain Effective Communication Between Masses Mr. Ching Yin “Johnson” Yeung will...

ABOUT THE EVENT Scholars in both the West and Asia have lamented liberalism’s global retreat in the face of populist views that see liberal constitutionalism, with its built-in constraints, as “undemocratic.” Many...

Is liberal democracy in trouble? What are Brexit's implications for the U.K. and its party system? How did Turkey's Erdoğan defeat the attempted coup?  "Democratic Deconsolidation" The recent electoral successes...