Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum@journa.host
another example of Autocracy Inc - autocrats working together:
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2022/12/15/china-is-helping-zimbabwe-to-build-a-surveillance-state
Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum@journa.host
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If democracies don't finally begin pulling together and fighting the spread of #autocracy everywhere, more and more developing democracies will fail and fall into a pit of #surveillance #dictatorship where civil society will be deprived of any possibility of organizing opposition again.
We know which regime is driving these "developments", but bankers and industrialists from democracies are still queueing up to kowtow its Leader while lobbying at home to ensure business continues as usual.
One sometimes wonders what #Tibetans, #Uighurs, #SouthMongolians, #Hongkongers and all the other silenced subjects of repressive regimes (read the article) might think about the ethics and moral backbone of #democracies.