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The President’s Inbox Recap: China’s Underground HistoriansChinese filmmakers, journalists, and artists are challenging the Chinese Communist Party’s version of history.
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CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series: Sparks—China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future by Ian JohnsonIan Johnson discusses his new book, Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future, which describes how some of China’s best-known writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to forge a nationwide movement that challenges the Communist Party on its most hallowed ground: its control of history.
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PEPFAR Reauthorization Struggle, Banned Books Week, Slovakia Democracy Test, and MoreImportant provisions of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) could expire due to partisan divisions, threatening a widely successful initiative; libraries take part in U.S. Banned Books Week in the face of a rising censorship movement; Slovakia holds an early parliamentary election amid concerns that pro-Russia parties will gain power; and Chinese President Xi Jinping and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad announce a partnership.
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A Dispiriting UNGALeaders devalue democracy under the guise of standing up to the West.
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The Identity Trap
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One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and social justice that is rapidly transforming America—and explains why it will fail to accomplish its noble goals. -
Sudan’s Civil Society Laying the Groundwork for Sustained PeaceSupporting Sudanese agency in the ongoing conflict will boost confidence-building measures for a sustained peace.
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Claudia Escobar Mejía: Marshall-Plan Like Effort Needed to Eliminate Corruption in Central AmericaWithout new measures to build democratic institutions, entrenched corruption, migration, and violence will only get worse.
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Africa’s ‘Leaders for Life’Sub-Saharan Africa is home to many of the world’s longest-ruling heads of state. Pro-democracy advocates have at times successfully stopped presidents from extending their mandates, but the authoritarian trend could be accelerating.
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Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the FutureSparks tells the story of how underground writers, filmmakers, and journalists are challenging one of the pillars of Communist Party rule: its control of history. In underground documentary films, samizdat magazines, and guerilla journalism, they document famines and political campaigns of years past and write about ethnic clashes and virus outbreaks of the present. Based on years of on-the-ground reporting, Sparks challenges the idea that independent thought in China has been crushed, revealing one of the world’s great battles of memory against forgetting—a struggle that will shape the China that emerges in the coming decades.
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CEO Speaker Series With Mathias DöpfnerMathias Döpfner discusses global trade, political polarization, the role of media in foreign policy, and lessons learned as chairman and CEO of Axel Springer SE, a multinational media company and owner of U.S. media brands including Politico and Business Insider. The CEO Speaker Series is a unique forum for leading global CEOs to share their insights on issues at the center of commerce and foreign policy, and to discuss the changing role of business globally.
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A Democratic InquestPervasive despondency about democracy in Africa urges the imperative to strengthen democratic institutions and practices.
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The President’s Inbox Recap: AI’s Impact on the 2024 U.S. ElectionsExpect the weaponization of artificial intelligence to further stress American democracy.
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Women This Week: Mexico on Track to Elect First Woman PresidentWelcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers September 9 to September 15.
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Further Downhill for African Democracy EffortsDemocracy is decidedly worse for wear in Africa following a set of sham elections in Zimbabwe and Gabon, with few bright spots in the upcoming electoral calendar.
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Update on U.S.-Latin America RelationsWill Freeman, fellow for Latin America studies at CFR, discusses the political landscape in Latin America and its implications for migration trends, the opioid crisis, and trade relations with the Un…