The Chinese Communist Party’s “capitalistic authoritarianism” aligns with the designs of the Middle East’s autocratic regimes and is aiding Beijing’s foreign policy in the region, according to Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, the founder of New York-based Ideas Beyond Borders.
Authoritarian capitalism is the operation of a capitalist economy, on the one hand, combined with the absence or erosion of democracy and civil liberties on the other, according to Daniel Kinderman, an Associate Professor and Director of European Studies at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware.
Out of 21 Middle Eastern and North African nations, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance classifies 17 as authoritarian regimes. At the same time, Israel is classed as a democracy, Jordan and Morocco as hybrid regimes, and Tunisia is classified as a weak democracy….