Leaders | How tyranny travels

Autocracies are exporting autocracy to their diasporas

The new danger from transnational repression

People walk through Chinatown in downtown Toronto, Canada
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For Millennia exile has been a way for critics to escape the iron fist of tyrants and for regimes to silence naysayers. Yet the way authoritarian regimes interact with dissenting opinions abroad is changing dramatically for the worse.

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