The United States will co-host a second “Summit for Democracy” next year, the White House has announced, with the goal of strengthening democratic institutions and fighting corruption around the world. “During the ‘Year of Action’ following the first Summit for Democracy in December 2021, the United States and over 100 partner governments around the world have taken meaningful steps to …
President Biden began his Summit for Democracy Thursday morning—carried live on the State Department’s public website—with a 10-minute address extolling the strengths of free speech and open discourse. The bizarre and undemocratic Electoral College, the stilted Supreme Court, the disinformation about the 2020 election, the deliberate suppression of voting rights, to say nothing of the Jan. 6 pro-Trump insurrection and …
The Biden Administration has had a year to remember. In early December, world leaders and civil society representatives shall gather in Washington for Biden’s grand “Summit for Democracy”. Biden has made it clear that human rights and democratic values will sit at the heart of his foreign policy and few things will make this as clear as this summit has. …
The Biden administration has invited Taiwan to its "Summit for Democracy" next month, according to a list of participants published on November 23, a move likely to infuriate China, which views the democratically governed island as its territory. The first-of-its-kind gathering is a test of President Joe Biden's assertion, announced in his first foreign policy address in office in February, …
The US invite to democratically governed Taiwan is likely to infuriate China, which sees the island as its own territory. “Our country’s invitation to participate in the ‘Summit for Democracy’ is an affirmation of Taiwan’s efforts to promote the values of democracy and human rights over the years,” the ministry said. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, meanwhile, said on …
