Russia and China are assumed to challenge democratization and to promote autocracy. In a first step, we analyze Central … Asia as the most-likely case, considering both Russia and China as relevant external actors. We develop a concept for our … analysis based on the different strategies of Russia (dominance) and China (doing-business) towards the region and present the …

"Beijing Rules is a superb expose which reveals how China learned to master capitalism which it now wields in its own … authoritarian form to achieve global dominance. As Bethany Allen, the China reporter for Axios, reveals, the long-standing belief … direction, authoritarianism can travel in the other. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has successfully engineered what Cold War …

Relations between China and the USA began with the best of intentions: the USA would sponsor the normalization of China …'s status in the international community through trade in exchange for China's commitment to peaceful co-existence with the west …. As an emerging economy, China has relied upon trade for export-led economic growth, mimicking the path taken by its …