Chuen T - interesting content

🌎 🗳 🔍 #theeconomist #eiu #democracy #index #taiwan Hi Telegram friends! It's very interesting to browse through the Democracy Index 2020 Report by the Economist Intelligence Unit. (It's 75 pages long!) Having grown up in a full democracy I don't think I really appreciated the right to vote as much as I do now. 🔥 ✊ 🗯 Many people in different regions and countries are protesting and fighting for their right to vote (and for their votes to be fairly accounted for). I can't imagine what that must be like. The people of Hong Kong even lost their status as democracy due to China's political clampdown. The least the people living in a democracy can do is to support them and spread awareness about their struggle and not support any of the authoritarian regimes (57 in total!) - may it be indirectly. 🦠 🔒 😷 The report also highlights the health of a democracy and how many democracies reacted to the pandemic with a "top-down imposition of extraordinary measures without inviting the public to express its opinion". 🇹🇼 🎖 🎉 Taiwan became a "full democracy" and increased its rank up to 11th in the world. However it still lives under the daily threat of the Chinese Communist party, which is aggressively increasing its global dominance. 😊 Feel free to comment and discuss the report with me!