Donald Trump’s suggestion that the United States disregard rules and regulations including “those found in the Constitution” drew scathing rebukes this weekend from politicians of both parties, with a top Democrat calling it “a danger to our democracy.”
Donald Trump on Tuesday expanded his campaign of undermining trust in US democracy to this year’s midterm elections, claiming baselessly that voting in a crucial swing state had been “rigged.”
US President Joe Biden took fierce aim Thursday at Donald Trump and his “extremist” supporters, labeling them enemies of American democracy in a prime-time address that sought to fire up voters ahead of key midterm elections.
Taiwan’s army held another live-fire drill Thursday after Beijing ended its largest-ever military exercises around the island and repeated threats to bring the self-ruled democracy under its control.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a long history of riling Beijing over democracy and human rights, whether by unveiling a banner on Tiananmen Square or in regular meetings with Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Hong Kong had been “reborn from the fire” as he arrived Thursday to mark the 25th anniversary of the city’s handover, in his first visit since the business hub’s democracy movement was crushed.
To ensure the vibrancy of the Philippine democratic processes, Partido Reporma standard-bearer Panfilo ‘Ping’ Lacson said the 2022 barangay elections need to continue, so the people would be given the freedom to choose their next set of local leaders.
The free market of ideas is one of the foundations of a true democracy. There is, after all, no monopoly of rationality or, for that matter, foolishness.
President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday called on Filipinos to “honor and thank” people who keep democracy alive as the country commemorates the 36th anniversary of the People Power Revolution.
Myanmar’s defenders of democracy, a Belarus opposition leader, the pope, and environmental activists like Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough have emerged as likely nominees for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.
