China said it was ready to strengthen mutual learning with other countries on democracy toward global development.
This was contained in a report titled “The State of Democracy in the United States: 2022”, being published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China through its website – https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202303/t20230320_11044481.html
According to the ministry, based on facts, media comments, and expert opinions, the report aimed to present a real picture of American democracy over the past year.
The ministry, therefore, said China was ready to advocate humanity’s common values of peace, development, equity, justice, democracy, and freedom.
“China will promote greater democracy in international relations and make new and greater contributions to human progress.”
The report explained that the U.S. had American-styled democracy, China had Chinese-styled democracy, and other countries had their unique models of democracy that suited their respective national conditions.
“Democracy is humanity’s common value; however, there is no single model of a political system that is applicable to all countries in the world.
“Human civilization, if compared to a garden, should be a diverse place in which democracy in different countries blooms like a hundred flowers.”
More so, it said it was up to the people of a country to judge whether their country is democratic or not, and how to better promote democracy in such a country.
“The few self-righteous countries have no right to point fingers. Those who have many flaws themselves have little credibility to lecture others.
“Attempts to undermine others for one’s own profit and destabilise the world must be unanimously opposed.
“A black-and-white division of countries as democratic or authoritarian is both anachronistic and arbitrary.”
China, in the report, stated that what the world needed today was to strengthen solidarity and cooperation and uphold true multilateralism.
It noted that this should be on the basis of the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter.
“What our world needs today is not to interfere in other countries’ internal affairs under the guise of democracy, but to advocate genuine democracy, reject pseudo-democracy and jointly promote greater democracy in international relations.
“What our world needs today is not a “Summit for Democracy” that hypes up confrontation and contributes nothing to the collective response to global challenges, but a conference of solidarity that focuses on taking real actions to solve prominent global challenges.
“Freedom, democracy, and human rights are the common pursuit of humanity, and values that the Communist Party of China (CPC) always pursues.”
It, however, said China remained committed to advancing the whole process of people’s democracy.
“It puts into action the principle of people running the country in the CPC’s exercise of national governance in specific and concrete ways.”
