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Xu Lin, vice curate of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of China's Communist Party holds a transcript of a government-produced study titled "Democracy that Works" during a property league astatine the State Council Information Office successful Beijing, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021. China's Communist Party took American ideology to task connected Saturday, sharply criticizing a planetary ideology acme being hosted by President Joe Biden adjacent week and extolling the virtues of its governing system. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

BEIJING – China's Communist Party took American ideology to task connected Saturday, sharply criticizing a planetary democracy summit being hosted by President Joe Biden adjacent week and extolling the virtues of its governing system.

Party officials questioned however a polarized state that botched its effect to COVID-19 could lecture others and said that efforts to unit others to transcript the Western antiauthoritarian exemplary are “doomed to fail.”

Tian Peiyan, the lawman manager of the party's Policy Research Office, said the pandemic exposed defects successful the American system. He blamed the precocious COVID-19 decease toll successful the U.S. connected governmental disputes and a divided authorities from the highest to the lowest levels.

“Such ideology brings not happiness but catastrophe to voters,” helium said astatine a quality league to merchandise a authorities study connected what the Communist Party calls its signifier of democracy, which is firmly nether enactment control.

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Biden, who has made a contention betwixt democracies and autocracies a cardinal taxable of his presidency, has invited astir 110 governments to a two-day virtual “Summit for Democracy” starting Thursday. Neither China nor Russia person been invited.

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