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Biden's ‘Summit’ is an insult to democracy
With the Summit for Democracy, the US President reverts to cold war rhetoric and bloc building — whoever thought that world peace would be better served with Biden than with Trump might be disappointed, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
US President Joe Biden
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ON DECEMBER 9 and 10, Joe Biden organised a virtual “summit for democracy.” Representatives of 110 countries were invited to this summit. Among them were many Western heads of government.
The purpose is, so to speak, promoting “democracy” and “universal human rights” around the world. But if you zoom in on some of the invited countries, you will quickly see that a completely different agenda is at play here.
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