(International Review) The gathering summit forcefully pushes "American Democracy", the United States' wishful thinking finally fell through

　　China News Service, Beijing, December 11

　　China News Agency reporter Ma Jiajia

　　From December 9th to 10th, the United States held the so-called online "democracy summit," and the American calculations behind it suffered many attempts.

The U.S. held the so-called summit with great fanfare. In fact, it is based on democracy and other things. It intends to use "value diplomacy" to force "American democracy" globally and reshape the "soft power" of the United States.

However, facts have proved that a democratic summit that has nothing to do with democracy cannot prevent the demise of "American democracy", and the United States will eventually fail to take the opportunity to revive "global leadership".

The demise of "pseudo-democracy" is hard to reverse

　　According to US media reports, on the opening day of the so-called "Democracy Summit," some protesters went outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York to complain about American democracy.

Some protesters held sickles in their hands with slogans such as "Big Capitalist" and "Dark Politics" on the sickles. Some protesters carried a coffin with the words "American Democracy" written on it.

In their view, American democracy is "dead" due to the manipulation of politicians and capitalists.

　　In fact, the above-mentioned protests and demonstrations are not accidental. The decline of American democracy has become the consensus of many parties.

　　According to the results of Pew's opinion survey of 16 developed countries including the United States, 57% of international respondents and 72% of American respondents believe that the United States is no longer a "democratic model" for other countries to emulate.

　　According to a poll conducted by Harvard Kennedy School in the United States earlier this month for the 18-29 year-olds, 52% of young people believe that American democracy has fallen into a failure or predicament, and only 7% believe that the United States is a healthy democracy.

　　Freedom House, a non-governmental organization focusing on democracy issues, also scored 83 points in the United States from 94 points a decade ago.

The person in charge of the agency bluntly stated that from the perspective of respecting people’s political rights and civil liberties, the US’s performance over the past 10 years has seen a “continuous decline”.

Transferring contradictions can hardly conceal one's own plight

　　In recent years, American democracy has suffered systemic maladies: from the battle between the two parties to the dominance of elections by money, from the riots on Capitol Hill to the unbreathable Freud, and the impact of the new crown pneumonia pandemic, the fragility of the American democratic system has been exposed.

　　After the Biden administration came to power, it tried to re-promote "values ​​diplomacy" and used it as a tool to reshape alliances and partnerships and restore the leadership of the United States.

The "Democracy Summit" was organized in this context.

The United States is unwilling to admit the fact that its own democracy is declining, and is eager to win over small circles and continue to whitewash its image as the "country of lighthouses."

　　However, this high-profile event has fully exposed the US government's anxiety, and the idea of ​​relying on external diversion to protect itself will eventually be difficult to work.

This is because the current democratic chaos and governance failures faced by the United States are internal problems that it has accumulated over a long period of time. They are not caused by external factors, and it is even less likely that they can be resolved or improved by transferring contradictions to the outside world.

　　As Carlos Fernández de Cossio, an official of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said: “The United States of virtual democracy will host a virtual summit on democracy. As can be seen from the list of participants, this is a kind of A deceptive practice. Such a conference cannot solve any major problem in the world, nor can it clean up the disgraced foreign policy of the United States."

　Inciting opposition is against the essence of democracy

　　The convening of this "democracy summit" was accompanied by criticism from all sides.

People from many countries have repeatedly spoken out in recent days to expose and criticize the hypocritical nature of the United States in creating divisions and exploiting other countries under the guise of "democracy."

　　Shakir Lamai, CEO of the Asian Ecological Civilization Research and Development Institute of Pakistan, recently wrote an article that the United States’ piece together of the so-called “democratic summit” is against the essence of democracy in terms of structure and agenda.

The article stated that the candidates for the "summit" are exclusive and specific, representing only the economic interests of a small number of people, and violate the principle of diversity; the "summit" is aimed at other countries in the name of democracy, and the real purpose is to contain other countries. Rise is against the spirit of equality of opportunity and respect for other countries.

　　The former Prime Minister of Guyana Nagamutu also criticized and pointed out that the essence of the "old democracy" represented by Western democracy is exploitation, domination, division and utilization, and what the people of the world need is the "new" that is the supremacy of the people and respects global human rights governance. democracy".

　　It is true that democracy is the common value of all mankind. In essence, democracy is the guarantee of tolerance, fair opportunity and respect for diversity.

However, in order to maintain its hegemony, the United States has used democratic public instruments for private use, trying to divide the world into two major camps, democratic and non-democratic, according to American standards, and openly instigated division and confrontation.

This kind of behavior of the United States does not help to explore the gains and losses of the democratic system, nor does it help mankind face common problems and challenges. It will only bring greater turmoil and disaster to the world, and is bound to be strongly condemned and condemned by the international community. be opposed to.

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