The March of Autocracy: Australia's Fateful ChoicesIn the face of a rising authoritarian Asia and a declining democratic West, can democracy fight back? "China is an emergent empire of a kind never seen before . . . It's not a gunpowder or dreadnought battleship or B 52 bomber empire. It's an information empire, propelled by commercial interests." JOHN KEANE The eleventh issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the rise of authoritarian and illiberal leaders, whose growing assertiveness is