American "democracy" has attracted global criticism

Beijing, 6 Dec (People's Daily Online) -- On 6 December, the 62nd press conference on Xinjiang-related issues in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was held in Beijing. Recently, the topic of democracy has attracted much attention, especially the so-called "Leaders' Democracy Summit" held by the United States on December 9-10, which has aroused widespread condemnation from the international community. Representatives from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region communicated with Chinese and foreign media online and offline, exposing the hypocritical nature of "American-style democracy."

The "democracy" of the United States is far from perfect, and the United States in the city of mountains no longer has a lighthouse effect, and its actions have attracted global criticism. Yilijiang Anaiti, spokesman for the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Government, said at the press conference that the eyes of the people around the world are shining brightly, and they can clearly see the various defects in US democracy, the hypocrisy of the US export of "democratic values," and the us running amok around the world in the name of democracy.

A spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry pointed out that the United States has long been accustomed to calling itself a "beacon of world democracy" and demanding that other countries treat peaceful petitions humanely, but it has taken the opposite approach at home, and the United States is not a beacon of democracy at all. The US Government should first listen to the voices of its own people, and should not engage in "witch hunting operations" at home while talking about the human rights issues of other countries in a dignified manner, and the United States is not qualified to point fingers at other countries.

In May 2021, the "Democracy Perception Index 2021" survey conducted by german pollster Rattana and the Alliance for Democracies Foundation, founded by former NATO Secretary-General and former Danish Prime Minister Rasmussen, conducted a survey of more than 50,000 people in 53 countries, showing that 44% of respondents were concerned about the threat to democracy in the United States, 50% of American respondents were worried that the United States was a non-democratic country, and 59% of American respondents believed that the US government represented only a small group interest.

In June 2021, Klaas, an associate professor of political science at the University of London in the United Kingdom, published an article in the Washington Post titled "The Failure of American Democracy Shocks the World." The Pew poll cited in the article shows that the United States is no longer a "city on top of the mountain", most U.S. allies regard U.S. democracy as a "broken past," and 69%, 65%, 60%, 59%, 56%, and 53% of the people in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Sweden, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom believe that the US political system is not working well or very well. More than a quarter of the population in France, Germany, New Zealand, Greece, Belgium, Sweden and other countries believe that "the United States has never been a model of democracy."

A report released by the pollster EU Perspectives shows that confidence in the US system has slipped, with 52% believing that U.S. democracy is ineffective, compared with 65% in France and 61% in Germany.

In September 2021, martin wolff, a well-known British scholar, published an article in the Financial Times entitled "The Strange Demise of American Democracy", pointing out that the political environment in the United States has reached an irreparable level, and democratic republics have further transformed into authoritarianism.

In November 2021, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, a Swedish think tank, released its annual report, The State of Global Democracy 2021, which included the United States for the first time in the "List of Regressive Democracies." The group's secretary-general said the marked deterioration in democracy in the United States was reflected in a growing tendency to question credible election results, repression of participation in elections and increasing polarization.

Indian political activist Yadav pointed out that the United States is not a "model of democracy", and the world recognizes that "American-style democracy" urgently needs self-reflection, and the United States needs to learn from other democracies. Mexico's "Process" magazine commented that under the appearance of seemingly democratic freedom, the American democratic system has huge flaws. Mbete, a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, wrote in the Post Guardian that many of the hallmarks of free and fair elections, such as universal voter rolls, centralized election management, and uniform rules and regulations, are actually missing in the US system. Good suffrage in the democratic training of Africans has never existed in the United States.

Source: People's Daily News