Democracy in Peril: Russia, China & Authoritarian movements

Folio’s second Democracy in Peril panel examines authoritarian movements in Russia and China and the role the United States and its allies play in countering those regimes. 

Moderated by retired journalist and Folio board trustee Mort Kondracke, the panel features Mark Clifford, former Editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post, director at Next Digital, (publisher of the shuttered pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper in Hong Kong), and author of Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China’s Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere; Prof. Glennys Young, chair of the University of Washington history department and a scholar on Russia and the Soviet Union; Prof. Dan Chirot, an expert on authoritarian regimes and tyranny at UW’s Jackson School of International Studies, and Carol J. Williams, award-winning foreign correspondent for 35 years at the Los Angeles Times and Associated Press, and finalist for the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting.