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US President Joe Biden will convene a “summit for democracy” with other world leaders in December, the White House said on August 11 in an effort to boost confidence in democratic governance and defend “against authoritarianism”. The action is widely seen as a reaction to the Chinese Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping, who in his speeches vowed to see that the ruling totalitarian party in China would promote “socialism with Chinese characteristics” for the betterment of mankind. The common shapes the future. Taiwan, an independent self-governing liberal democratic island that the Chinese regime wants to claim as part...
