China on Saturday accused the US of utilizing democracy as a “weapon of mass destruction” to “stoke divisions and confrontation” because it slammed the Summit for Democracy organised by the Biden administration, which Beijing portrays as a brand new entrance being fashioned by America to isolate it to halt its rise.
The two-day summit attended by over 100 world leaders, together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, concluded on Friday with a name to judge progress in safeguarding honest elections, defending human rights and preventing corruption.
While the US omitted China and Russia from the record of invitees, Beijing was livid over the invitation to the self-governing island Taiwan, which China stated is a blatant violation of the ‘One China’ coverage that considers Taipei because the integral a part of the Chinese mainland.
“A final message I want to impart as we close out this Summit for Democracy is that we know how hard the work is going to be ahead of us. But we also know we are up to the challenge,” Biden stated, wrapping up the summit.
Biden stated the two-day digital gathering has demonstrated that the democratic world is all over the place.
He stated autocracies can by no means extinguish the embers of liberty that burns within the hearts of individuals world wide, in each portion of the world.
“We’re committed to working with all who share those values, to shape the rules of the road that are going to govern our progress in the 21st century, including on issues of cybersecurity and emerging technologies so that future generations continue to reap the benefits of liberty and democracy, as we have,” Biden stated.
The Chinese international ministry, which has been attacking the summit up to now few weeks, issued a prolonged assertion accusing the US of stocking divisions within the identify of democracy.
“Stoking division and confrontation in the name of democracy is to backpedal in history, and will bring nothing but turmoil and disaster to the world,” the assertion stated.
For a very long time, the US has been imposing its political system and values on others, pushing for the so-called “democratic reforms”, abusing unilateral sanctions and inciting “colour revolutions”, which have prompted “disastrous consequences”, it stated.
“Democracy has become a weapon of mass destruction used by the United States to interfere in other countries’ affairs,” the assertion stated, asserting that the US ‘Summit for Democracy’ has “drawn the ideological line and turned democracy into a tool and a weapon”.
The US “sought to thwart democracy under the pretext of democracy, incite division and confrontation, and divert attention from its internal problems. It attempted to preserve its hegemony over the world, and undermine the international system with the United Nations at its core and the international order underpinned by international law,” the assertion stated.
Pakistan, which was invited to participate within the summit together with India and the Maldives, skipped it, apparently after a late-night cellphone name from Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi on December 4 the place he criticised the assembly saying that what the US goals for shouldn’t be democracy however hegemony.
The US is in search of to defend its dominant place on the planet within the identify of democracy, Wang had informed Qureshi.
Asserting that the US is “not a beacon of democracy”, the international ministry assertion sought to painting the one-party system headed by the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) as People’s Democracy focussing on social and financial growth.
“China promotes its democracy in accordance with its national conditions and realities. China’s democracy is people’s democracy. Its essence and core is that the people are the masters of the country.”
The international ministry stated China covers all facets of the democratic course of and all sectors of society. It is the “most broad-based, real and effective socialist democracy”.
It stated with the eradication of absolute poverty, the 1.4 billion Chinese individuals at the moment are marching towards frequent prosperity.
“China has made the biggest advance in individual freedom in thousands of years, and the creativity of the hundreds of millions of Chinese people has been fully unleashed,” the assertion stated.
The international ministry attacked the American political system as “vetocracy” with partisan pursuits put above nationwide growth.
“The dysfunction of the American-style democracy is a fact that cannot be covered up — the Capitol riot that shocked the world, the death of George Floyd that sparked mass protests, the tragic mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the harsh reality of the rich becoming richer and the poor poorer,” it stated.
