Navalny's death deepens the pulse between democracies and authoritarian regimes. The Munich Security Conference exhibits a broken global order.

Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are narrowing ranks. “The question is whether democracy will survive,” says Von der Leyen of the European Commission. ‘I hope it doesn't become the world of yesterday,’ says Volodymyr Zelensky of Putin's war in Ukraine.. China's main foreign policy representative tried in Munich to profile his country as a stabilizing force in a turbulent context.