China vs. Democracy: A Handbook for Democracies

I often see discussions on China taking the starting point of how to get the gang together back again without asking underlying questions. I'd say a more productive approach is to ask what made democratic countries fall off the wagon in the first place.

It's similar to the approach most European political parties have with their local far-right colleagues. They rush to make a common front but never spend time considering how their own failures provided the biggest boost.

If each member of the alliance has systemic issues they aren't dealing with, forming an alliance is no longer sufficient to counter a threat.