Beijing urges US to stop using democracy as excuse to interfere

Uvalde and Highland Park mass shooting survivors, families and supporters rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, calling for stricter gun controls on July 13, 2022. PHOTO AFP Beijing has urged Washington to stop pointing fingers at other nations and stop using democracy as a pretext to interfere in their internal affairs, stating that the Summit for Democracy co-hosted by the United States this week is an attempt to divide the international community.

Foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said on Tuesday that the world needs not be a summit that stokes confrontations but rather is a platform for solidarity and cooperation that focus on concrete efforts to solve problems faced by global society.

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Mao's remarks came after Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova described the US's attempts to present itself as a leader in promoting democratic values as the height of hypocrisy and said the US has no moral right to lecture others about chronic domestic issues.

We appreciate the comments of the Russian side. As we have stated, the US only exposes its hegemony in the guise of democracy by holding such summits despite its own problems, Mao said at a news conference in Beijing.

The US peddles its model of democracy around the world as the US peddles its model of democracy, according to a report recently released by the Foreign Ministry. Democracy in the US is in chaos and a trail of havoc and disasters is left behind.

The report said the US acted to divide the world into two camps of what it defined as democracies and non-democracies in order to serve the interests of none other than itself.

The world doesn't need division today in the name of democracy or de facto supremacy-oriented unilateralism. Mao said that the world needs to strengthen solidarity and cooperation, and uphold true multilateralism on the basis of the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter.

She stated that efforts should be made to advocate for real democracy, reject pseudo-democracy and to promote greater democracy in international relations.