Etiket: autocrat
EU’s Tunisian partner turned out to be a classic autocrat
“There is a criminal scheme to change the composition of Tunisia’s demographics and some people have received large sums of money to shelter sub-Saharan migrants,” Tunisian President Kais Saied told…
Death of enlightened autocrat marks the end of soft authoritarianism in China
Former President Jiang Zemin at the Party Congress in November 2012.Image Feng Li/Getty Images During his years as China’s leader, Jiang Zemin was often sneered at. Although he oversaw an…
Death of enlightened autocrat marks the end of soft authoritarianism in China
Former President Jiang Zemin at the Party Congress in November 2012.Image Feng Li/Getty Images During his years as China’s leader, Jiang Zemin was often sneered at. Although he oversaw an…
The incident at the climate summit in Egypt is yet another tear in the mask of autocrat Sisi
Agnès Callamard, secretary-general of Amnesty International, is furious at Egyptian parliamentarian Amr Darwish.Statue Joseph Eid / AFP Of course, the international climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh is about climate. But…
Knocking at another autocrat for fuel is a sign of Western weakness
US President Joe Biden gives a friendly boxing to Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. After taking office, Biden promised to treat him as “a pariah” for…
The oligarchs and the autocrat
The Russian business elite, the oligarchs who control the dozens of large energy and commodity companies that concentrate the bulk of Russian GDP and which the US Treasury Department considers…