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China’s new D.C. ambassador: We’re just a misunderstood democracy China’s new ambassador in D.C. isn’t buying President Joe Biden’s warning to the United Nations General Assembly about rising authoritarianism. On Wednesday, Qin Gang issued an implicit rebuke to Biden’s U.N. speech, telling a crowd of China wonks that the country’s seven decades of one-party rule is actually a misunderstood form of democracy. Qin warned that “misjudgment” about the differences in the U.S. and Chinese political systems had harmed the bilateral relationship. In his first in-person public address since arriving in the U.S. in July, Qin told representatives of the Carter...
