Democracy is in retreat in the world as tyrannical regimes accumulate more economic prowess than free countries, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab warned on Wednesday. In a speech at the Aspen Security Conference, Raab said that the combined GDP of autocratic regimes is expected to exceed that of the world’s democracies within this decade. “Just take a second to think about what that means,” he said. “Tyranny is richer than freedom. And that matters to us here at home because we know stable, freedom-respecting, democracies are much less likely to go to war, to house terrorists, or to trigger large-scale flows of immigration.” Raab hailed the UK’s Integrated Foreign Policy Review, unveiled by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday, as the country’s “international strategy for this decade and beyond.” Though the Review still sees Russia as the top security threat, China is now seen as the primary threat to economic …
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