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Beijing criticises South Korea for inviting Taiwan to democracy summit

Video | Beijing slams Taiwan’s invitation to US-backed summit

Taiwan

Video | Taiwan president warns Beijing against ‘military adventurism’ in new year speech

US Politics

Opinion | What’s driving the global crisis of democracy?

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Hong Kong elections

Top Beijing diplomat: Hong Kong must not fall into America’s ‘democracy trap’

Liu Guangyuan makes remarks during briefing session for consul generals, foreign business chambers and selected media. But one diplomat calls event ‘very awkward’ and says China and West are ‘just talking past each other’.

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Liu Guangyuan, commissioner of the Chinese foreign ministry’s Hong Kong office, briefed foreign officials and local media on the country’s plans for Hong Kong’s democratic development. Photo: Dickson Lee
US-China relations

Opinion | US, China democracy summits just the start of a global debate on government

The US and China clearly have fundamentally different views on what defines a democracy. Beijing’s attempt to explain its system of governance to the world is a positive move in fostering understanding.

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US-China relations

Opinion | China claims democracy isn’t just Western. Is it hype or history?

The historical record shows that many supposedly ‘Western’ democratic ideas such as winning hearts and minds, or the pursuit of happiness, actually derived from Confucian thought.

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US-China relations

Outside In | US democracy summit sets out to divide the world

The recognition that democracy can take different forms takes a backseat to the apparent US intent to draw a fence around likely allies in an effort to isolate a rising China.

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US President Joe Biden speaks to guests and Kennedy Centre Honorees in the East Room at the White House on December 5. There is a genuine debate to be had over the merits of democratic institutions, but Biden’s democratic summit is unlikely to provide it. Photo: Getty Images / TNS
China’s Communist Party

Letters | Overbearing Western democracies in danger of acting like dictatorships

Readers discuss China’s democracy forum, protection for domestic workers in Hong Kong, career support for elite athletes and the controversial death scene of a cat in a Chinese drama.

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Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping pushes multilateral message before US democracy summit

Chinese president says changes needed to global governance to better represent developing countries.

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Communist Party politics

China is touting its ‘whole process democracy’. So how does it work?

Beijing is trying to portray is system as more representative and effective than the US model, but grass-roots voters and candidates complain of being silenced.

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The elections are the first step in selecting representatives to the top law-making body. Photo: AFP
US-China relations

As I see it | Is Biden’s democracy summit the start of a new world order?

Both Beijing and Moscow have taken umbrage at Washington’s attempts to ‘seek supremacy at the expense of others’.

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Beijing went ballistic when US President Joe Biden managed to hit two hot buttons at once by inviting Taiwan to his signature democracy summit. Photo: Reuters
Hong Kong Basic Law

Opinion | Could US democracy have crafted ‘one country, two systems’? Unlikely

Managing the reintegration of Hong Kong with the motherland requires leadership of the highest order and a culturally advanced society. The short-term cycle of elected governments in a democracy makes it virtually impossible for a policy like one country, two systems to gain traction.

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Human rights

Opinion | The West defined terror for 20 years. Now China wants to define democracy

In fighting the ‘war on terror’, the West has seen its democratic rights and freedoms eroded. With much of the international community fed up with the West’s weaponising of human rights, China is pushing back with its own definition of democracy.

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India

Analysis | Battle for democracy: India, Hong Kong and Biden’s China bogeyman

Democracy’s struggles are internal, not geopolitical. It needs to clean up its act, not pick fights with autocrats, writes Debasish Roy Chowdhury.

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Angela Merkel

Germany’s Angela Merkel asks China to resume human rights dialogue

Chancellor makes the request during the latest of her consultations with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang hold virtual talks on Wednesday. Photo: EPA-EFE
Carrie Lam

Video | Hong Kong leader’s definition of ‘patriot’

Hong Kong protests

Video | Hong Kong activists condemn sentencing

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Hong Kong protests

Video | Hong Kong fugitives jailed on Chinese mainland

Ten Hong Kong fugitives captured at sea jailed for up to three years on Chinese mainland
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