In the United States and around the world, societies are struggling to balance the sometimes draconian social controls needed to combat a highly contagious infectious disease with limits on government powers and protection for civil liberties. 

Lincoln Davidson is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. You can follow him on Twitter @dvdsndvdsn.  As China celebrates its second annual National Cybersecurit…

2017 was a year of great energy and activism for China in cyberspace, with the Chinese leadership pushing on three interconnected fronts: information control; cybersecurity; and international norms a…

Textile vendors look after their Chinese-made goods inside their stalls in Kano, northern Nigeria, March 15, 2011. (STR New/Courtesy Reuters) Given that Nigeria has the second largest economy in Afr…