China News Service, Beijing, August 20 (Reporter Li Jingze) Recently, the drastic changes in the situation in Afghanistan triggered international discussions on the "democratic transformation" of the United States. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying stated in Beijing on the 20th that major changes have taken place in the situation in Afghanistan. , Once again shows that externally imposing and transplanting democracy will not last long and will not be strong.

　　In response to the recent major changes in the situation in Afghanistan, former US ambassador to Afghanistan, McKinley, wrote on the "Foreign Affairs" magazine website that the United States has failed in its 20-year attempt to impose the Western democratic model on Afghanistan.

The German President stated that the cruel scene at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan has humiliated the West.

The Brookings Institution believes that the Afghanistan issue has fully exposed the serious discrepancy between the US's words and actions in promoting Western democratic values, and cast a shadow over the first Global Democracy Summit to be held by the United States at the end of this year.

　　In this regard, Hua Chunying said that facts show that democracy cannot be preconceived and cannot be replaced by others. There is no fixed model for democracy.

"Just like the Chinese stomach is not suitable for drinking cold milk every day, Americans are not accustomed to using chopsticks, and it is not called eating steak or hamburgers with a knife and fork every day. Democracy should not be Coca-Cola. The United States produces puree, a taste in the world. I know that many Chinese people like Arctic Ocean soda."

　　"What exactly is democracy? Who should define democracy? How to judge whether a country is truly democracy?" Hua Chunying said that these rights should not be monopolized by the United States and its few allies.

In our view, the key to judging whether or not it is democratic is whether it meets the expectations, needs, and requirements of the people.

In this sense, China is a people’s democracy and the United States is a money democracy; what the Chinese people enjoy is substantive democracy, while what the American people enjoy may be formal democracy; China practices whole-process democracy, while what the American people enjoy is Voting democracy every four years.

　　She pointed out that the United States regards one person, one vote as the highest form of so-called democracy, which is very narrow.

"U.S. elections are controlled by interest groups. It is a money politics of'no banknotes, no votes.' Unlike the Chinese Communist Party, which puts the interests of the country and the people first, American politicians put the ability to get votes first, staring for four years. Even the votes two years later."

　　Hua Chunying said that while thousands of people in the United States are struggling with the new crown pneumonia epidemic, American political parties are continuing to attack and fight, putting political self-interest above people's lives and health.

The lives of more than 600,000 American people have not been able to awaken their conscience and responsibility.

"In the past 30 to 40 years, the rich got richer in the United States, and the poor got poorer. 1% owned, 1% governed, and 1% enjoyed. Is this democracy? The Freuds can’t breathe, gun violence is rampant, and for a long time The problems of racial discrimination and hatred are hard to come back. Whose democracy is the United States? Can the US government get the support of half of the people? Which political party in the United States can represent the interests of the entire American people?"

　　"Look at the results of the United States' promotion of American-style democracy around the world. In which country the people interfered by the United States have enjoyed true peace, security, freedom, and democracy? Iraq? Syria? Or Afghanistan?" Hua Chunying asked.

　　She pointed out that democracy should be real, not empty slogans. It should not be a spiritual opium to fool or numb the people, nor should it be a pretext or excuse to attack and discredit other countries and maintain its hegemony.

Under the banner of so-called "democracy," forming cliques, wantonly interfering in other countries’ internal affairs, and even arbitrarily suppressing the normal development of other countries and the people’s right to enjoy a better life. This is precisely the greatest undemocracy, tyranny and hegemony. , Is totalitarian.

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