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The world’s democratic recession is giving China more power to extend authoritarianism
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Over the last decade, the number of countries considered to be liberal democracies has contracted from 41 to 32, back to the same level as in 1989. In the same period, 87 other countries were labelled as closed…