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08-24-2020

China: A hard-line autocracy that loses credibility at an international level

The country report of China in the Bertelsmann Transformation Index (BTI) 2020 shows little change for the continent-sized Asian country since the last report of 2018. Structural challenges continued to intensify and the CCP’s single-party leadership does not consider democratic transformation as an objective to be pursued. On the contrary, the administration of President Xi Jinping continued to oppress opponents and dissidents while intensifying ideological indoctrination and surveillance. The deprivation of civil liberties, the concentration of power and the lack of political participation are the main reasons for classifying China in the BTI as a hard-line autocracy. At the same time, the BTI warns that China is becoming increasingly isolated from the world’s liberal democracies and loses their confidence. Human rights violations in so-called “re-education camps”, where it is estimated that more than one million Uyghurs are held, caused widespread criticism among Western democracies and lead to even more concern over China’s candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council elections in October this year.
By Dorothea Krueger
 

Dorothea KruegerDorothea Krueger She studies International Cultural and Business Studies at the University of Passau, Germany and is an international intern at CADAL (from May to August).

CHINA: A hard-line autocracy that loses credibility at an international level

Dorothea Krueger
Dorothea Krueger
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Dorothea Krueger holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Cultural and Business Studies from the University of Passau (Germany), a Licentiate degree in Intercultural Economic Management from the Universidad del Salvador (Argentina) and a Master of Arts in International Relations and Diplomacy from Trier University (Germany). In 2020, she joined CADAL as an international intern and then continued collaborating as volunteer Student Research Assistant. Since 2024 she is Project Assistant at CADAL.
 
 
 

 
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