China’s communists bash U.S. democracy before Joe Biden summit

Tian Peiyan, the deputy director of the party’s Policy Research Office, said the pandemic exposed defects in the American system.

China’s Communist Party took American democracy to task on Saturday, sharply criticising a being hosted by President Joe Biden next week and extolling the virtues of its governing system.

Party officials questioned how a polarised country that botched its response to could lecture others and said efforts to force others to copy the Western democratic model are “doomed to fail.” Tian Peiyan, the deputy director of the party’s Policy Research Office, said the pandemic exposed defects in the American system. He blamed the high death toll in the U.S. on political disputes and a divided government from the highest to the lowest levels.