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Authoritarian powers that restrict media freedom and manipulate public discourse at home are increasingly seeking to curate information flows abroad. The new Sharp Power Research Portal (bit.ly/3olg2Hl) catalogues research and reporting on these efforts, including… 
Concise analysis from @edwardlucas @cepa on China’s strategy for dealing with the West, which involves censorship, divide-and-rule diplomacy, and the leverage of trade and investment. cepa.org/a-china-strate…
Reporting by @lilkuo on shifting PRC state-media coverage of the pro-democracy protests in #HongKong theguardian.com/world/2019/aug…
📣 PROJECT LAUNCH: @ThinkDemocracy launches the Sharp Power Research Portal, a resource hub cataloging research and reporting on authoritarian #sharppower in 134 countries.
View the interactive map and database: sharppower.org
View the interactive map and database: sharppower.org
Global interdependence between autocracies and democracies has made open societies vulnerable to authoritarian manipulation in unanticipated ways, and the impact can be difficult to measure.
A clearer pattern emerges when incidents like the recent disappearance (and reappearance) of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai are viewed in the context of broader censorship and other influence efforts, @JesLudwig writes for the Power 3.0 blog. power3point0.org/2021/12/01/sha…
“If Carrie Lam resembled Darth Vader,” Joshua analogises about the architect of the infamous extradition bill, “the Hong Kong Police Force would be the armour-clad, blaster-brandishing stormtroopers terrorising villagers across the galaxy.”
True to this Star Wars frame of reference, #UnfreeSpeech posits a Manichean opposition between the interests of democratic HK & China, charting the ambition of the increasingly repressive PRC Gov to use its #sharppower to export its “brand of one-party rule in Asia and beyond”.
There is “a new cold war … brewing between China and the rest of the democratic world, and Hong Kong is holding the line in one of its first battles”.
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