China Releases Report on Dysfunction of US Political System
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As the US prepares to host a summit on Democracy, China has just released a report on the dysfunction of the US Political System.
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China named the government-produced report "Democracy that Works"
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a report on Sunday that tackles the dysfunction of US democracy, ahead of the "Summit for Democracy", which the US will host later this month.
"Over the years, democracy in the US has become alienated and degenerated, and it has increasingly deviated from the essence of democracy and its original design. Problems like money politics, identity politics, wrangling between political parties, political polarization, social division, racial tension, and wealth gap have become more acute. All this has weakened the functioning of democracy in the US," the ministry's report said.
The US had Taiwan, but not China or Russia, on a list of invited countries.
According to the ministry, the biggest problem plaguing the US is that it often uses democracy as a justification to interfere in the affairs of other countries.
"What is now imperative for the US is to get to work in real earnest to ensure its people’s democratic rights and improve its system of democracy instead of placing too much emphasis on procedural or formal democracy at the expense of substantive democracy and its outcome," the report concluded.
The US decided to invite Taiwan and not China
Washington invited 110 countries to participate in the summit, with China, Russia, and a dozen other states not invited.
The US decided to include Taiwan, which China sees as a breakaway province, in the list of invited countries, a move Beijing blasted as a flouting of the One China policy it had agreed upon with the US. The summit will be held virtually by US President Joe Biden on December 9 and 10 and will focus on the challenges faced by various democracies and their opportunities.
Formerly, China and Russia's ambassadors to the US, Qin Gang, and Anatoly Antonov, firmly rejected this move in a joint article published by the National Interest.
"The upcoming American-led online Summit for Democracy will stoke ideological confrontation. Faced with an array of global challenges, countries urgently need to strengthen coordination and cooperation for common progress," the ambassadors said in the article.
