Le Yucheng, China’s vice-foreign minister and also the forum’s keynote speaker, described Washington’s democracy summit as the “very opposite of democracy” because, he said, it would “do no good to global solidarity no good to cooperation, and no good to development”. ![]() Money-dominated politics: money decides everything.Ĭlick for more: /IdfKqThDdZ- China Xinhua News December 5, 2021Įvents in the past week intended to highlight the shortcomings of US democracy also included a high-profile forum attended by the British political commentator Martin Jacques and John Ross, who was an economic and business policy director for the former mayor of London, Ken Livingstone. “The US is far from a ‘beacon of democracy’ and has nothing worth showing off given the chaotic American society,” Global Times quoted a Chinese academic as saying. Global Times said the report “ the deficiencies and abuse of democracy in the US”, as well as the “harm of it exporting such democracy”. The state-owned Xinhua news agency accompanied the release with a series of cartoons that mocked the US system. On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry released a report on the state of democracy in the US. ![]() Invited attendees to the first summit on 9 and 10 December at a virtual meeting include Taiwan, an island Beijing claims as its own. “Xi has long used the claim that the party’s governance is superior to that of the west, in order to legitimise the party’s monopoly of power,” Charles Parton, a former British diplomat and a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, told Reuters news agency. Independent candidates who are perceived not to align with the ruling party’s political agenda are often harassed or arrested. The paper was dismissed by many western China watchers, who pointed out that under China’s system of government, political opposition to the ruling Communist party is not allowed.Ĭitizens can vote in local elections, but candidates are vetted by the authorities. On 4 December, Beijing issued a lengthy paper entitled “China: Democracy That Works”. ![]() US President-elect Joe Biden said the US rioters were undermining democracy by trying to overturn Trump's defeat in November's election.They also touted China’s one-party governing model, calling it “socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics” and “a whole-process democracy”. Hong Kong protesters had stormed the legislature to demand democracy - a battle they appear to have lost as China smothers the territory with a national security law, sweeping opposition figures and activists up in mass arrests. ![]() "What happened in the Hong Kong Legislative Council last year is being repeated in the US Capitol," wrote another user in a comment with over 4,500 likes. "I don't know what kind of double-standard reports will be carried by Hong Kong or Taiwan media this time." "At present, all European countries' leaders have shown double standards and condemned it (Washington rioting)," read one Weibo comment which gained over 5,000 likes. The hashtag "Trump supporters storm US Capitol" pinballed across Weibo on Thursday, racking up 230 million views, as users compared the global support for Hong Kong's protesters with the outpouring of condemnation for the pro-Trump mob. China's Communist Youth League also described the unrest as a "beautiful sight" on the Twitter-like Weibo platform.
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