China News Service, Beijing, June 6th (Guan Na) From June 6th to 10th local time, the Ninth Summit of the Americas will be held in Los Angeles.
However, before the summit was held, it was criticized and boycotted by many Latin American countries.
On the one hand, it excludes some countries because of the "democracy issue", and on the other hand, it intends to demonstrate its own regional leadership. Instead, the "democratic diplomacy" of the Biden administration will be caught in a dilemma.
The Americas Summit, but many countries in the Americas do not participate?
The Summit of the Americas was born in 1994 at the initiative of former US President Bill Clinton.
The Americas Summit is hosted by the United States again since the first summit was held in Miami.
The theme of the summit is "Building a Sustainable, Resilient and Just Future".
U.S. President Joe Biden's administration earlier said it did not intend to invite the leaders of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to the summit because of "democracy concerns."
This caused strong dissatisfaction in Latin American and Caribbean countries.
Data map: US President Biden.
Cuban President Diaz-Canel has said he will not participate in the Americas summit under any circumstances.
The leaders of Mexico, Bolivia, Antigua and Barbuda also expressed their refusal to participate in the summit if the United States does not invite all the leaders of the American countries.
Nicaragua's President Ortega pointed out that he has no interest in participating in the Americas summit. The United States has no respect for Latin American countries and regards Latin America as a "garbage yard".
On May 27, 10 countries including Cuba issued a joint statement at the summit of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas, condemning the United States' attempt to split the Americas.
Participants said that the Americas summit was politically motivated to exclude some countries, and the unilateral decision of the host country, the United States, caused a serious setback in the relations of many countries in the Western Hemisphere.
Foreign media pointed out that in recent years, the conceptual framework on which the Summit of the Americas and the Organization of American States have existed for the past few decades has begun to be undermined.
Does "American Democracy" Serve Its Own Interests?
Although the United States claimed that it did not want to invite Cuba and other three countries because of "democratic issues", Al Jazeera pointed out that many of the invited countries were not "models" of the values promoted by the United States.
Experts believe that the United States is actually serving its own interests by setting its own standards for democracy.
Many foreign media analyzed that Biden's attitude towards Cuba and other countries is related to his midterm elections.
The Cuban state president said, "(Biden) just wanted to take a photo of the summit to serve his campaign, and it is estimated that few people will remember what happened a few hours after the summit."
Mariana Aparicio, a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, believes that the United States aims to use this Americas summit to demonstrate its leadership in Latin America and the Caribbean. priority issues, thereby turning the Americas Summit into the “US Summit”.
John Kirk, a professor of Latin American studies at Dalhousie University in Canada, also said the United States is not hosting a true summit of the Americas.
What is now taking shape is the "U.S. Friends of the Region Summit," where Washington has lost an opportunity to honestly address major regional challenges.
Data map: Some people take a walk on the lawn in front of the US Congress.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Sha Hanting
On the other hand, some analysts pointed out that Biden's "democratic diplomacy" is thus caught in a dilemma.
The Biden administration recently announced that it would relax some of the sanctions imposed on Cuba and Venezuela during Trump's term, but US media pointed out that Cuba and Venezuela did not make "political concessions" and moved closer to "American-style democracy", leading to internal opposition to Biden within the Democratic Party. Quite complaining.
The "Wall Street Journal" said that considering the midterm elections, the Biden administration has changed its "tolerance" attitude towards Cuba and other countries, claiming that the sanctions policy has remained largely unchanged, which led to protests by other US Democrats.
Meeks, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, and three other Democratic congressmen jointly wrote a letter to Biden, pointing out that isolating some countries will only damage the influence of the United States in the Americas.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian previously stated that Latin America is not someone's "front yard" or "back yard", and the summit in the Americas is not a summit of the United States.
The fact that the United States attempted to interfere in the affairs of Latin America and the Caribbean under the pretext of hosting the Summit of the Americas is doomed to fail.
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