'Democratic pretensions, dysfunctional politics, divided society': State of US democracy report by China

Beijing: With an aim to present a “real picture” of American democracy over the past year, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday released a report on its website titled “The State of Democracy in the United States: 2022.” According to the report based on facts, media comments and expert opinions, the democracy in America was in chaos at home and a trail of havoc and disasters was left behind as the United States peddled and imposed its democracy around the globe. In addition to the preamble and conclusion, the report has two parts titled “American democracy in chronic ills” and “The United States’ imposition of ‘democracy’ has caused chaos around the world.” People’s daily online reports. As per the report, the vicious cycle of democratic pretensions, dysfunctional politics and a divided society continued in the United States in 2022, adding problems such as money politics, identity politics, social rifts, and the gulf between the rich and the poor worsened. Hitting at the U.S. policy to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, the reports said “Our world needs today is not to interfere in other countries internal affairs under the guise of democracy, but to advocate genuine democracy, reject pseudo-democracy and jointly promote greater democracy in international relations. What our world needs today is not a “Summit for Democracy” that hypes up confrontation and contributes nothing to the collective response to global challenges, but a conference of solidarity that focuses on taking real actions to solve prominent global challenges, the report said. The maladies afflicting American democracy deeply infected the cells of U.S. politics and society, and further revealed U.S. governance failure and institutional defects, it said. However, the United States refuses to acknowledge the many problems and institutional crises confronting its democracy at home and stubbornly claims to be the template and beacon of democracy for the world, it said, adding that such imperiousness perpetuates the ills of its democracy and causes dire consequences for other countries. Democracy is humanity’s common value. However, there is no single model of a political system that is applicable to all countries in the world. It goes on to say that it should be up to the people of a country to judge whether the country is democratic or not and how to better promote democracy in their country. The few self-righteous countries have no right to point fingers, People’s daily online quoted report as saying. Those who have many flaws themselves have little credibility to lecture others, and attempts to undermine others for one’s own profit and destabilize the world must be unanimously opposed, says the report, adding that black-and-white division of countries as democratic or authoritarian is both anachronistic and arbitrary, it said. What our world needs today is not to stoke division in the name of democracy and pursue de facto supremacy-oriented unilateralism, but to strengthen solidarity and cooperation and uphold true multilateralism on the basis of the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, according to the report. China-U.S. relations are at their worst point in decades, strained over numerous issues including microchips, human rights, Covid-19, balloon controversy, tariffs Russia Ukraine war and Taiwan. Read all the  Latest News ,  Trending News ,  Cricket News ,  Bollywood News , India News  and  Entertainment News  here. Follow us on  Facebook,  Twitter and  Instagram.