China attacks ‘US-style democracy’ prior to Biden summit

Beijing highlights virtues of its own one-party model in slew of scathing criticisms of western system

China has launched a campaign to discredit what it calls US-style democracy in advance of the first of Joe Biden's two summits of democracy" later this week.

Over recent days, official Chinese media outlets and diplomats have made a string of scathing attacks on the US governing system, calling it a game of money politics" and rule of the few over the many".