China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs releases report on "U.S. Democracy"
China News Service, Beijing, December 5th. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs website released a report on "U.S. Democracy" on the 5th. By listing facts, figures, and the opinions of relevant institutions, individuals and experts in various countries, it sorts out the shortcomings of the U.S. democratic system and analyzes the practice of democracy in the U.S. The chaos of the United States and the harm of exporting democracy to the outside world, in the hope 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."
For example, at the institutional level, the report pointed out that American democracy has been reduced to "money politics"; the name "one person, one vote" is actually "rule by a few elites"; power checks and balances have become "veto politics"; flaws in election rules damage fairness and justice; The failure of the democratic system triggers a crisis of confidence.
Regarding the chaos in democratic practice, the report listed specific phenomena such as congressional riots that shocked the world, deep-rooted racial discrimination, out-of-control epidemics that led to tragedies, increasing polarization between the rich and the poor, and "freedom of speech" that was not worthy of the truth.
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.
The report emphasizes that the international community is currently responding to urgent global challenges such as the new crown pneumonia epidemic, economic growth slowdown, 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.
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