On September 16, 2021, Foreign Affairs published an article by David O. Shullman and Charles Edel, “How China Exports Authoritarianism.” The authors argue that “Beijing’s money and technology is fueling repression worldwide” and warn that “China’s actions threaten to usher in a world of undemocratic regimes that are beholden to Beijing.”
Beijing seeks less to impose a Marxist-Leninist ideology on foreign societies than to legitimate and promote its own authoritarian system and warn that China’s actions threaten to usher in a world of undemocratic regimes that are beholden to Beijing.