It’s easier than ever for dictators to reach beyond their own borders.
Last year, long-standing concerns among China watchers about Beijing’s ability to carry out censorship on a global scale burst into the public consciousness in a high-profile dispute between the Chinese government and the NBA.
The nature of warfare and geopolitical competition has also changed. Rather than direct military conflicts between national governments, today wars are more likely to resemble the one in Ukraine, a muddled conflict between militias and proxy forces that has aspects of both a full-fledged occupation and a civil war. Putin’s Russia has been particularly good at exploiting the ambiguity of conflicts like Ukraine and Syria to bolster its own global influence.
The U.S. has also engaged in authoritarian acts abroad, and long before Trump. One of Glasius’ primary examples is “digital surveillance such as that practised by the US National Security Agency and revealed by the Snowden leaks.” The U.S.
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