US President Joe Biden arriving to deliver his remarks at the virtual Summit for Democracy at the White House in Washington DC. — AFP
ON Dec 9-10, the United States hosted an online “Summit for Democracy”, which it claimed was to “focus on challenges and opportunities facing democracies” and to “defend democracy and human rights at home and abroad”.
Unfortunately, it might end up to be nothing but an attempt to divide the world into opposing political camps and advance the US’s own strategic agenda with democracy as an excuse. If so, the meeting couldn’t be further away from the spirit of democracy. China firmly opposes the move by the US, one that is dominated by Cold War mentality and which seeks to incite ideological confrontation and risks creating new divisive lines in the international community.
