The success of US President Joe Biden’s Summit for Democracy is best shown by the reaction of the two leading authoritarian governments that were not invited to participate and were its main targets.
On Dec. 9, the first day of the virtual meeting, the China Daily, the propaganda organ of the Chinese Communist Party, carried no fewer than five articles disparaging it.
The week before, the Chinese and Russian ambassadors to the US published a rare joint letter lambasting Washington’s two-day event.
They called it “an evident product of its Cold War mentality [that would] stoke up ideological confrontation and a rift