In a week apart both China and the United States of America have launched “Democracy” conferences. Apparently not invited to President Biden’s democracy summit; China had its propaganda blitz.
There last week they gathered online in Beijing to push the idea about China’s political system, which delivers better results for its own people than the broken U.S. system.
“China’s whole-process people’s democracy is not the kind that wakes up at the time of voting and goes back to dormant afterwards,” says Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng. Xinhua released excerpts of a 30-page white paper entitled, “China: Democracy That Works” as well as government followed with its own report blasting the U.S. democracy and the state newspapers ran editorials praising China’s system and questioning America’s.
Besides, China also argues that although it does not have direct elections or multiparty rule, it is able to accurately measure what the people want through what the party has long called the “people’s democratic dictatorship,” meaning a few to represent the whole country. Seems President Xi Jinping likes the tough tones.
Then, who to trust for the Democracy: China or America?
