December 6, 2021

Ahead of Biden summit, China’s communists bash U.S. democracy

China’s Communist Party took American democracy to task on Saturday, sharply criticising a global democracy

summit being hosted by President Joe Biden next week and extolling the virtues of its governing system. Party officials questioned how a polarised country that botched its response to COVID-19 could lecture others and said efforts to force others to copy the Western democratic model are “doomed to fail.” Tian Peiyan, the deputy director of the party’s Policy Research Office, said the pandemic exposed defects in the American system. He blamed the high COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. on political disputes and a divided government from the highest to the lowest levels.