OPINION: COVID-19 provides opportunity to form alliance of democracies

The COVID-19 outbreak has created a number of global crises simultaneously -- in health, economy and politics. Without swift and ambitious actions these crises risk morphing into an existential crisis for free and democratic societies.The pandemic has increased the urgency for a global alliance of democracies to counter the rising autocracies. As the leading Asian democracy with unparalleled political goodwill in both Washington and Brussels, Japan will play a pivotal role in making such an alliance possible.Even before COVID-19 struck, the world's autocrats were emboldened by the perceived…READ FULL ARTICLE