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      U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks during the Summit for Democracy in the South Court Auditorium at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Wednesday, March 29, 2023.​

      Biden Embraces Autocracies and Deteriorating Democracies to Challenge China

      The administration sees the world as divided between U.S. military and economic power and the alliances supporting it, and the only peer competitor facing the United States.

      Jake Werner
      Apr 01, 2023

      The Biden administration opened its second Summit for Democracy this week with a panel featuring India's Narendra Modi and Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu. As the leaders of their countries, both have pursued similar forms of exclusionary nationalism.

      Indeed, both Modi and Netanyahu were—as they spoke—facing political crises at home in response to their attempts to permanently sideline democratic opposition.

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      Then presidential candidate  Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva waves a national flag during a campaign rally in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais state, Brazil on October 9, 2022.

      People Fighting Back Against Rising Autocracy Offers Hope, Says Report

      "The level of democracy enjoyed by the average world citizen in 2022 is back to 1986 levels. This means that 72% of the world's population, 5.7 billion people, live under authoritarian rule," said V-Dem's director.

      Jessica Corbett
      Mar 02, 2023

      An annual report released Thursday by researchers in Sweden sounds the alarm about countries that are "undergoing autocratization" but also highlights how people around the world "have reclaimed democracy and stopped negative trends."

      The Varieties of Democracy Institute (V-Dem) at the University of Gothenburg produces the world's largest dataset on democracy, with over 31 million data points for 202 nations from 1789 to 2022. Its new report focuses on the state of countries last year.

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