Why China’s Government Succeeds
The great revolutionary and philosopher Thomas Paine wrote on the eve of the American Revolution in 1776 that “these are the times that try men’s souls.” He might as well have been talking about the global challenges mankind faces today.
The latest edition in the two-decade annual series of the globally fielded Edelman Trust Barometer (ETB), an annual survey of trust and credibility in four major institutions—government, business, media and non-governmental organizations, provides some answers to which nations are meeting today’s existential challenges. And which are not.
High points
While U.S. President Joe Biden and his allies have been banging their drums about the superiority of democracy versus autocracy, even hosting a “summit for democracy” last December and
