The "New York Times" said that US President Joe Biden is facing sharp criticism for announcing plans to organize a global summit on democracy.
Critics of the US president assert that it is not America's business to direct other countries towards the democratic path, adding that the new administration must heal the wounds of democracy after supporters of former President Trump invaded Congress headquarters in Washington, DC, on January 6.
Among the specific promises of Biden in foreign policy was his pledge to hold a global summit on democracy in his first year in power, with the aim of taking a declared stand against the authoritarian and populist trends that have arisen during the previous period, and which Biden and his advisors view as a threat to Western political values.
The newspaper pointed out, that there is a feeling that the American democratic system itself suffers from a defect unless it has been completely broken, just as America's foreign opponents say that the United States will not lecture other countries about democracy.
The head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Supreme Council of the Russian Parliament, Konstantin Kosachev, wrote on Facebook after the Capitol riots saying that America is no longer able to determine the democratic course, and thus lost the right to control it, as well as to impose it on others.
While Hu Channing, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, recently told reporters, Americans may be proud of themselves in their democracy and freedom, but after a lot of political chaos, they may hope that they can lead a life as the Chinese do.
But American officials say that these foreign comments or doubts by foreign policy analysts inside America will not ease the line that Biden promised during his candidacy, as he intends to hold a democracy summit that brings like-minded leaders together to discuss ways to strengthen their systems internally and protect them from threats such as corruption and election security.
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