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China trolls Biden's "Summit for Democracy"

  • By Al Mayadeen Net
  • Source: Agencies
  • 10 Dec 2021 11:47
2 Min Read

Chinese media trolled the "Summit for Democracy", comparing the US to Voldemort and China to Harry Potter.

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  • China trolls Biden summit
    Chinese media: Young President Biden must have eaten too much KFC.

Following China's own virtual International Forum on Democracy, Chinese media trolled Biden's administration and the US' democracy after China, along with Russia, was excluded from Biden's "Summit for Democracy" this week.

Some of the statements included Harry Potter jokes, such as "does US-style democracy realize dreams or create nightmares? It appears to have turned evil like Voldemort, the dark wizard of the Harry Potter franchise." 

Also, "Young President Biden must have eaten too much KFC and McDonald’s, leading to a belief that democracy is like a fast-food chain with the United States supplying the ingredients."

One by Xinhua News Agency compared the United States to Voldemort — and, by implication, China to Harry Potter — to cast shade on the US' style of democracy.

“Just like young Voldemort was a star of the wizarding world in his youth, American-style democracy’s early development was an innovation,” the article said. “But just as Voldemort went down an evil path, so has American-style democracy over time gradually changed and decayed.”

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US democracy in 'diversified' forms pic.twitter.com/PXhoqYRQVU

— Hu Xijin 胡锡进 (@HuXijin_GT) December 6, 2021

A series of tweets from Chinese diplomats refer to the event as a “so-called” democracy summit, while a Russian political commentator writing in a Chinese newspaper compared the US initiative to “a mistress of a brothel teaching morale [sic] to schoolgirls.”

International Forum on Democracy

A few days ago, China held its own virtual International Forum on Democracy, reportedly joined by politicians and scholars from more than 120 countries, releasing a white paper stressing that China is a democracy that works better than the system in the US.

The ambassadors of China and Russia to the US stressed that the summit was “anti-democratic” in a joint opinion piece published in late November by The National Interest, an American magazine. 

#GTGraphic: Why Chinese #democracy is more extensive, more genuine and more effective than American democracy?
Check out the graphic for more: pic.twitter.com/Zmh3RznsgL

— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) December 4, 2021

China’s democracy summit included a list of attendees including Jose L. Centella Gomez, the president of Spain’s Communist Party, and former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who spoke about shared common values, according to the Chinese state broadcaster CGTN.

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