Taipei Times
AsiaPac · 11 mins ago
China is threat to democracy: NGO head
By Chen Yu-fu and Sam Garcia / Staff reporter, with staff writer The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses a huge challenge to democracy, as it uses political, economic and technological tools to try to reshape the world order according to its own interests, driving a decades-long decline in global freedoms, National Endowment for Democracy president and CEO Damon Wilson said yesterday.Wilson spoke at this year’s China In The World (CITW) Summit in Taipei yesterday, emphasizing there is no doubt that China’s negative influence has been a major driver of a 20-year consecutive decline in global freedoms, political rights and civil liberties.Taiwan is on the front line of strategic competition and the contest between authoritarianism and freedom, Wilson said. National Endowment for Democracy pr
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