07 / 08 / 2009
Moscow and Beijing: pre-empting democracy. Democracy Digest.
“When I think of the ‘colored revolutions’, I feel afraid,” said Shi Zongyuan, China’s senior press regulator.
Democratic transitions in formerly communist states traumatized authoritarian leaders in Russia and China, prompting a remarkable convergence of views and responses, characterized by efforts to develop competing forms of soft power and to suffocate or co-opt civil society.
“On the [...]