U.S. President Joe Biden’s planned democracy summit next week will be a "joke” and the American political system doesn’t represent a real democracy, senior Chinese officials said Saturday.
"Under the American democratic system, U.S. politicians are the agents of interest groups, and don’t represent interests of majority voters nor national interest,” Tian Peiyan, deputy director of the Policy Research Office of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, said at a news conference in Beijing on Saturday for the release of a white paper on democracy.
U.S. politicians would promise anything just to get elected and rarely delivered on their commitments, he said. "This is not real democracy, Chinese people don’t like and don’t want such a democracy,” Tian said.