Congo in, China out: Biden’s democracy summit guest list raises eyebrows | KnottMatthew
In the first year of his presidency, Joe Biden has used a single, epochal theme to frame an array of policy announcements. Sharing vaccines with developing nations and investing in America’s decaying infrastructure were not just important initiatives in themselves; they were ways to demonstrate that democracies can still deliver for their citizens in an age of rising authoritarianism.
Meanwhile, the United States was listed as a “backsliding democracy” for the first time this year by the Swedish-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance following the January 6 Capitol riot and new restrictions on voting rights in several Republican-controlled states. “The great danger I see is with the summit is that democracy gets dragged into power posturing and increases public cynicism towards the ideals of democracy,” Keane says.
Women work at a brick factory in Baghdad’s south-east suburb of Nahrawan, Iraq. They work 12 hours a day for about $US15 . Iraq has been invited to Joe Biden’s summit of democracy.Anatol Lieven, a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, says hosting the summit exposes the US to charges of hypocrisy.
“The US needs to mobilise a broad church of countries concerned about China and not all of those countries are democracies” Lemahieu says. “In fact, most ASEAN countries are either authoritarian regimes or flawed democracies.”
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