In China, “there is no democracy,” and the communist government’s concession to protesters “probably staved off a threat to its rule and thus won a small victory for autocracy” in averting a more consequential uprising, says Benjamin Friedman, policy director at the group Defense Priorities. Ukraine, he says, is a “weak democracy” made more tenuous by the war, even as it holds off Russia.
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