Cartoon | China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticizes the triple evils of "American Democracy"
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs website released the report "U.S. Democracy" on the 5th. It sorted out the shortcomings of the U.S. democratic system by listing facts, figures, and the opinions of relevant institutions, individuals, and experts in various countries, and analyzed the chaos in the U.S. domestic democratic practice and the harm of exporting democracy. It is hoped that the United States will improve its own democratic system and practice and change its course abroad.
The full text of the report is about 15,000 words. In addition to the preamble and concluding remarks, it also includes two parts: "What is democracy" and "The alienation and triple evils of American democracy".
The report said that democracy is the common value of all mankind, and it is the right of the people of all countries, not the patent of any country.
There are many ways to achieve democracy, and they cannot be the same.
It is undemocratic in itself to measure the colorful political systems of the world with a single ruler, and to examine the colorful political civilization of mankind with a monotonous eye.
The political system of each country should be independently determined by the people of that country.
The report said that historically, the development of American democracy has its progressiveness. The political party system, representative system, one person, one vote, and the separation of powers are the denial and innovation of European feudal autocracy.
However, with the passage of time, the American democratic system has gradually alienated and transformed, and it has increasingly deviated from the core of the democratic system and the original intention of the system.
The report detailed the alienation of American democracy and its evils from three aspects: "the system is chronically ill and hard to return", "democratic practice is chaotic," and "exporting so-called democracy produces evil results."
The report stated that the current United States should effectively protect the democratic rights of the people internally, improve its own democratic system, shoulder more international responsibilities externally, and provide more public products, instead of neglecting procedural democracy and formal democracy internally. Substantial democracy and result democracy, externally imposing American democracy on others, dividing camps by means of values, and acting in the name of democracy to interfere, subvert, and invade.
According to the report, the international community is currently responding to urgent global challenges such as the new crown pneumonia epidemic, slowing economic growth, and climate change crisis.
Countries should transcend differences in different systems, abandon zero-sum game thinking, practice true multilateralism, promote the common values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom for all mankind, respect each other, seek common ground while reserving differences, cooperate and win-win, and jointly build mankind Community with a shared future.
(Reporter Zheng Mingda)
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