A second reason for democracy’s decline is the resurgence of China and Russia. As China’s economic rise continued without interruption in the quarter-century after Tiananmen Square, observers began ...

Consumer choice works the same way ... China held this year may turn out to be one more baby step on China's long march to democracy.

Given the CCP’s efforts to reshape the world, it is important to understand what liberal democracy can offer ordinary Chinese.

Chinese leaders have stated many times that there will be 'no western-style democracy' in China. This means CCP leaders are not prepared to introduce free elections and multi-party politics ...

The handbook, entitled “China Vs. Democracy: The Greatest Game,” is a primer on how the PRC threatens the open global society that is the source for most of its own wealth and power (full ...

Authoritarian rule in China increasingly involves a wide variety of deliberative practices. These practices combine authoritarian command with deliberative influence, producing the apparent anomaly of ...

The 1984 declaration didn’t require China to allow Western-style democracy in Hong Kong ... Chinese leaders that the demonstrations are the work of "foreign influence". In Tsang’s view ...

And in district council elections in November, pro-democracy candidates overwhelmingly defeated established pro-government politicians. It was seen as a rebuke to China. Hundreds of thousands of ...

One of China's highest-profile democracy campaigners has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for "subversion of state power". Qin Yongmin, 64, has already spent a total of 22 years behind bars.

(Vincent Yu/AP) A Hong Kong court last month sentenced 45 pro-democracy politicians and activists ... when Beijing realized its unpopular pro-China candidates would lose. More than 600,000 Hong ...