Chinese President Xi teaches US President 'Democracy' in their meeting
text_fieldsWashington: Nothing is more ridiculous than believe that there is democracy in China.
But Chinese President Xi Jinping wouldn't give a damn about what you know about China.
US President Joe Biden and Chinese president Xi Jinping met in Bali making their encounter historic since two nations are at loggerheads over a slew of issues including China's aggressive policies on Taiwan.
Both leaders touched on the question of democracy, human rights, and freedom, leading to Xi Jinping express a hitherto unheard idea of democracy in China.
Previously Joe Biden frequently referred to the idea of "inflection point "in today's global politics. By which he means that people have to choose between two systems of governance: democratic system of governments or dictatorships, according to Reuters.
Xi Jinping does not need any more ideological schooling to know what Joe Biden aims at with his idea of "inflection point".
Xi Jinping is now the supreme authority of China amid rising concerns within and without China that he plans to be a ruler for life.
The Chinese President has had enough of American idea of democracy, and he told Biden that idea of "democracy versus authoritarianism" narrative is "not the defining feature of the today's world".
He added that "still less does it represent the trend of the times", and expanded further to say that democracy and human rights are humanity's common pursuit.
Chinese Community Party, according to him, has been constantly pursuing these high ideals and added that "The United States has American-style democracy. China has Chinese-style democracy."
Human right groups, western leaders, and academics call China's one-party system a dictatorship citing that it lacks independent judiciary, free media, and universal suffrage for national office.
Critics or Xi or Chinese Communist party face harsh treatments including censoring and risk of detention.