China’s Global Times fittingly denounced March 29 the platitudinous, hypocritical, and bone-chillingly boring “Summit for Democracy” of President Biden for feeding divisiveness. “No matter how many fancy words the Biden administration has used to boost the summit, this event, like the first one held in 2021, has been used by the Biden administration as a tool to reaffirm the U.S.’ leadership in so-called democracy and human rights. Its ambition to pull more countries into its interest camp to contain its rivals, especially China and Russia, has been interwoven into the agenda of the event and is too obvious to hide.” (https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202303/1288232.shtml )
The low-point of the conference—and this was a hotly contested category—was President Biden’s keynote to the conference plenary session. He put forth such pearls of wisdom as, “And today we can say with pride that the democracies of the world are getting stronger, not weaker. Autocracies of the world are getting weaker, not stronger.” We will spare the reader other messages of genius.
