will have to invest and compete across all these dimensions-while bolstering democracy at home and abroad. But the competition with China is a similarly multidimensional struggle that is economic, cultural, technological, diplomatic, military, and ideological all at the same time. The world is very different than it was during the Cold War, and China is bigger, richer, and more integrated into the global economy than the Soviet Union ever was.
The United States faces a serious and sustained competition with China that may shape the rest of the 21st century as profoundly as our Cold War with the Soviet Union defined the latter part of the 20th century. And while Russia poses an immediate threat to peace in Europe and to the integrity of our elections at home, it is Xi’s China that represents the greatest long-term challenge to the future of democracy. Putin is not just a garden-variety nationalist he is a paranoid, chronically underestimated, implacable enemy of democracy. They are defending coup-plotters and curbing voting rights while Russia tries to crush Ukraine’s fragile democracy and China menaces not only Taiwan but democracies everywhere, from Australia to Lithuania. Republican leaders are abandoning core tenets of American democracy even as the stakes in the global contest between democracy and autocracy are clearer and higher than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Much has been said about the assault on American democracy by a radicalized Republican Party, but its international consequences have not gotten the attention they deserve. In the United States, where American leaders should have been unified in championing democracy against these aggressive adversaries, the opposite happened: The Republican National Committee formally declared the violent insurrection of January 6, 2021, to be “ legitimate political discourse.” In Beijing, the world’s two most powerful autocrats-Putin and China’s Xi Jinping-cemented their deepening alliance. The scope of that wider struggle was on vivid display on February 4. Ukraine is one flash point in a larger global struggle between democracy and autocracy-one that stretches from the steppes of Eastern Europe to the waters of the Indo-Pacific to the halls of the U.S.
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That is why he has waged a long-running shadow war to destabilize free societies and discredit democratic institutions in the United States and around the world.
Putin is also motivated by a deep opposition to democracy more broadly. But the invasion of Ukraine is not a limited regional dispute between neighbors. R ussian President Vladimir Putin pines for the old Russian empire and takes Ukraine’s independence as a personal affront.
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