We no longer live in a world where the very wealthy can do business with autocratic regimes, sometimes promoting the foreign policy goals of those regimes, while at the same time doing business with the American government, or with European governments, and enjoying the status and privileges of citizenship and legal protection in the free markets

This warning could also go further, for the competition is not only with China, and not only in trade. We may now be at an inflection point, a moment when we have to decide how to shape surveillance technology, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, voice- or face-recognition systems, and other emerging technologies so that their

Chinese businesses use their presence around the world to collect data and information that could eventually help them wage cyberwarfare. Russian, Chinese, and other oligarchic money in American and British real estate has distorted property markets in major cities and corrupted more than one politician. The fact that anonymous shell companies were

The risks of overdependence on trade with Russia, China, or other autocracies aren’t just economic. They are existential. Following the invasion of Ukraine, Europeans learned the hard way how high a price they had paid for their decision to rely upon Russian gas. The shift to more expensive energy sources caused inflation. Inflation in turn caused

She failed to understand that Russian companies were acting not as private companies but as agents of the Russian state, representing the interests of the Kremlin in myriad commercial and political transactions.

Matthias Warnig, a former Stasi officer who had been stationed in Dresden at the same time as Putin, became Nord Stream’s chief executive. Gerhard Schröder, the chancellor who had agreed to the construction of Nord Stream 2, accepted Putin’s suggestion that he become the head of the Nord Stream AG shareholders’ committee only a few days after

Kloop, the now-banned Kyrgyz news organization, successfully worked for years to create links among independent journalists in central Asia so that even people in very closed countries can better understand what is happening in the region, including the Russian attempts to dominate their information space.

the cheapest option in Africa or Latin America. No democratic government should ever assume that arguments for democracy or for the rule of law are somehow obvious or self-evident. Authoritarian narratives are designed to undermine the innate appeal of those ideas, to characterize dictatorship as stable and democracy as chaotic. Democratic media,

The American far right has meanwhile shifted the legitimate political debate about online platform regulation into an argument about “bans” and “free speech,” attacking the academics and other researchers who seek to understand how the online world functions and to explore how it could be made more transparent.