doing more than the rest of the world combined. but on democracy, how to run your country with the former president of the united states actually says falsely that the election was delegitimized, was stolen, and most of his supp supporters, including in his own party actually agree with that, you literally can t hold a democracy summit and think it to be functional in that regard. and, of course, looking ahead to 2024, there s just to capacity for the u.s. to be consistent in the way it articulates this going forward. ian bremmer, anne applebaum, thank you both very much. next on gps, after 16 years in office, angela merkel is no longer the chancellor of germany and thus no longer the de facto leader of europe. can her shoes be filled? back in a moment to explore just that. at morgan stanley, a global collective of thought leaders offers investors a broader view.
ian, in the context of this contest or tension anne described, the biden administration has held a big democracy summit. what do you make of that? is that the answer? i mean, it would be nice if it was the answer. there are a lot of reasons why it isn t. one is, of course, the united states cannot be ideologically consistent in the allies it chooses around the world. some are based on common values. some are based on real politic and they are not democracies at all and how do you pick who shows up? the much deeper problem and more central problem is the united states is not seen as an example of a well-functioning democracy by anyone around the world right now. very different than when the wall came down in 89, when of the soviet union collapsed in 1991. it makes a lot of sense for the g7 as common advanced industrial democracies working together in
opportunities. so they have ways of working together, of getting around sanctions, pushing back against, not just against western diplomacy, but against western ideas. they have a common one common thing, which they all fear the language of democracy and they fear the democracy movements inside their own countries, which are larger in some places than others, but they re enough of a problem for them to care about them. so it s really in their interest as a group, even though they don t have much in common ideologically, to seek to undermine western institutions, to push back against western language about human rights and to do that in a concerted way. you can absolutely see that in a number of places around the world. ian, in the context of this contest or tension anne described, the biden administration has held a big democracy summit. what do you make of that? is that the answer? i mean, it would be nice if
still compete, but there will be a full scale diplomatic boycotting. no u.s. government officials will attend. and again, the timing here, the announcement about that today, ahead of the democracy summit at the end of the week, if taking action to promote human rights is one of the themes of the big democracy summit that president biden is hosting, while this announcement about the beijing olympics diplomatic is something concrete that he and the u.s. government can point to. to say hey, we are not just talking about this. we are walking the walk on that point. there s human rights, second point was corruption. corruption is the under appreciated, but constant companion to authoritarian government. you don t get one without the other. and you don t get the other without the first one. but today, the biden administration rolled out a new long u.s. government strategy against corruption. this is a 30 page document, not a whole new approach to fight. it includes, for example,