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China DailySONG CHEN/CHINA DAILY Democracy has been cherished worldwide for centuries. Perhaps from their perspective, the former colonies are nothing more than supplicants, making them easy targets for coercive imposition of Western-style democracy through "regime change", resource plundering and/or cultural subjugation. While the US takes pride in its brand of electoral democracy, and make it a "common value" in rallying its allies against China, the pathetic scenes of drug abuse, the visual squalor posed by tens of thousands of homeless and destitute people, and the rampant looting of shops in the name of "zero dollar shopping" in some US cities have, however, presented to the world how dysfunctional the US-style democracy is. In this context, obviously Washington's interest in weaponizing the "long arm jurisdiction" to interfere in the domestic governance of other countries takes precedence over the livelihood of its own people, notably the destitute strata. So long as global governance remains strait-jacketed by the Cold War mentality, the face-off between Western democracy and what the West perceives as "authoritarian" will continue to obscure the concerns and aspirations of the Global South.
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