https://www.scmp.com/rss/267089/feed Leta Hong Fincher is the author of Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China and Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China. She is the first American to receive a PhD from Tsinghua University's Department of Sociology in Beijing. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Democracies around the world are grappling with the global rise of authoritarian rulers such as Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Vladimir Putin of Russia, Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and Xi Jinping of China. The first public hearing of the US House Intelligence Committee under the Democratic Party majority on February 26 dealt with the threat of rising authoritarianism and warned that liberal democracies are facing their most serious crisis in decades.  Left unsaid at the hearing was a... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/asia/article/2188964/international-womens-day-support-liberal-democracy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/asia/article/2188964/international-womens-day-support-liberal-democracy?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 07 Mar 2019 19:00:15 +0000