China’s State Council Information Office on December 4 released its latest White Paper titled “China: Democracy That Works,” providing an in-depth picture of the workings of China’s unique consultative and governance system or what is now known as China’s “whole-process people’s democracy.” The publication was released just a week prior to U.S. President Joe Biden putting on his self-styled Summit for Democracy, in which many of those “Western democracies” which have totally bungled the COVID-19 pandemic, will acclaim the “superiority” of their system over that of China and some other countries.
Editor's note: The United States of America claims to be the defender of democratic values and human rights. It also dictates what those are for the world. But the truth lies in facts. To help our readers get answers to some of the most heated questions about U.S. democracy, CGTN's "Facts Tell" series lets the facts speak for themselves.
Discussions on the definition of democracy have been heating up as think tanks and academic institutions hold dialogues and forums to discuss the topic.
"American democracy" is one of the buzzwords, with discussions by both politicians and scholars on how the current U.S. foreign policy aims to divide the world in the name of "democracy." It is using the Cold War mindset to maintain its hegemony.
Bilateral trade between China and Pakistan, and exports from Pakistan to China, are both running at record levels for the year to date, according to a Chinese official on Wednesday.
Washington is in a hurry of late. It has to contain China's high-tech development on the one hand and is anxious to collect some so-called democratic countries to establish a "democratic front" against China on the other hand.
China on Tuesday accused the United States of betraying Olympic principles and said Washington would "pay a price" for its diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Games in Beijing even as a top International Olympic Committee official voiced respect for the U.S. decision.
The American version of democracy has caused social disorder and various other problems within the United States, while inciting chaos in nations that imported the model, a Chinese think tank says.
A Chinese think tank has published a report that criticizes American democracy.
The paper entitled 'Ten Questions for American Democracy' was released by the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China on Monday.
Is democracy for the majority or the minority? Does democracy improve people's well-being or deepen their suffering? Will democracy help realize dreams or bring nightmares? These were some of the questions asked by a Chinese think tank's report on Monday.
Democracy should be the right enjoyed by people of different countries rather than the privilege of certain countries. As the so-called Summit for Democracy, US' newest international charade, is about to kick off on Thursday, the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China, released on Monday the research report "Ten Questions for American Democracy." The report raises 10 questions about American democracy, hoping to help the world fully understand democracy and promote shared values for all humanity.
The “Resolution on the Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party over the Past Century”, adopted by the Sixth Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in November 2021, is, rightly, regarded as in the first place an issue for China itself. As the Resolution notes in its first sentence: “Since its founding in 1921, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has remained true to its original aspiration and mission of seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation.”
Soaring energy prices have led to serious inflation in the US, which shows, once again, that the US' economic model is still under the traditional framework based on fossil energy. The energy transformation will experience a complicated and long process.
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government's message about pandemic control has been erratic, with anti-mask and anti-vaccine rhetoric abounding. Today, the United States, with less than 5 percent of the world's population, has nearly 15 percent of all reported COVID-19 deaths in the world. While the number of new cases continues to rise daily, there are still many politicians and people who oppose wearing masks, claiming that choosing not to wear one is a way to preserve one's "freedom." However, this kind of "freedom" opens the gate to the rampant transmission of the virus.
The US has to share the world with China and other countries, says journalist and scholar Martin Jacques in an interview with People's Daily reporter He Jieqiong.
Foreign powers supporting Malaita, exploiting differences
U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken spent several days touring African countries with the message that the U.S. has not forgotten them. Many African leaders are perhaps happy with this turn of events as most people feel that the U.S. has forgotten Africa – for a very long time.
As the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) entered the eighth year, analysts acknowledged its contribution to world economic growth, while also noting the risks as well as new investment opportunities brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
When Washington set Beijing as the US' "most serious competitor," think tankers in the White House failed to anticipate that a domestic problem, lurking under the surface of US society, finally started to erupt.
China and Pakistan have inked an agreement that would open the Chinese market for Pakistani onion, marking the first deal since the two neighbors embarked on the second development phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) that focuses on cooperation in industrial and agricultural sectors.