The US President Joe Biden’s Democracy Summit held on 9th–10th December triggered an intense debate on democracy in China. China’s State Council Information Office released the “Democracy in China” white paper on 4 December, followed by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs releasing the white paper “The State of Democracy in the United States” on 5 December. Various conferences, seminars, discussion sessions were organised throughout the month, which were attended by Chinese bureaucrats and top scholars/strategists from China and abroad to debate and discuss ‘democracy’. China’s state media also ran a high decibel campaign targeting the democracy summit. In fact, some Chinese scholars dedicated December 2021 as the global “Democracy Contest Month”, with the US and China as the two main protagonists.
The “democracy” debate in China (Antara Ghosal Singh, ORF)
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