What not to call digitally driven authoritarianism

Russia and China's leaders are post-truthing their take-down of democracy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, pictured in 2014, have both made pitches for alternative democracies in recent days, writes Lisa Van Dusen. Photograph courtesy of the Kremlin

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

October 25, 2017

The bad news is that democracy—having undergone a series of attacks, degradations, and incriminations—is a little under the weather at the moment. The good news is Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping just happen to have a Plan B. After years of borderless, cyber-enhanced covert warfare against the sy...

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