Biden’s summit on democracy

 

Biden infuriated Americans with who he invited to this summit on democracy

His upcoming “Democracy Summit” is no exception. 

And you won’t believe who is on his invite list. 

According to the State Department the event is supposed to, “provide a platform for leaders to announce both individual and collective commitments, reforms, and initiatives to defend democracy and human rights at home and abroad.”

The timing is certainly ironic.

As TIME Magazine writer Debasish Roy Chowdhury put it, “Having recently abandoned Afghanistan to an Islamist autocracy and famine, and now finalizing a $650 million arms sale to Saudi Arabia, President Joe Biden thought it would be a fine idea to hold a two-day virtual gathering on democracy, where some of its worst offenders could pose as responsible upholders of freedom and dispense homilies on how to save the world from those like themselves.”

But the irony doesn’t stop there. 

As Chowdhury points out, more than a dozen invited countries are classified as “electoral autocracies.”

Another three are considered “not free at all.”

And more than 30% of the 110 invited countries are considered only “partly free.”

So why are they really being summoned by the world’s most confused – and confusing – head of state? 

Perhaps, because it’s not about democracy at all – even though one tiny democracy is at stake. 

Pakistan embarrassed the Biden administration when it suddenly withdrew from taking part in the summit after spending months apparently trying to get invited.

According to a U.S. News and World Report article, “Chinese officials told their Pakistani counterparts that participating in the two-day virtual summit this week would be detrimental to their increasingly interconnected relations, particularly since Taiwan – which Beijing considers a renegade province of the mainland – was also invited to participate, a source familiar with China’s decision-making says on the condition of anonymity.”

The source for that article also said inviting Taiwan to the summit, “is extremely antagonistic because it is creating this impression that there is an alternative to the People’s Republic of China, and it is effectively one step closer to saying Taiwan is a legitimate nation–not part of the PRC.” 

This makes so much more sense. 

Biden is essentially inviting the meanest bullies he knows to his party in hopes they’ll be on his side when things get ugly. 

And he might have one thing right: if (when) China takes over Taiwan, America is in a whole lot of trouble. 

In fact, China’s likely takeover of the tiny island would give communist nations almost complete control over the world’s supply of computers and cell phones – as well as parts for modern cars and appliances. 

Over the years, Taiwan has positioned itself to play an outsized role in the computer manufacturing industry.

By 2011, the tiny island was assembling 90% of all laptops in the world and making 98% of all computer motherboards. 

Now it’s also home to the largest computer chip making company in the world: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), which had a 54% share of the semiconductor market in 2020 and is growing rapidly. 

It’s also home to UMC, another major semiconductor chip manufacturer, and numerous factories owned by American companies.

We can only hope those on Biden’s “Democracy Summit” guest list will prove to be better friends than enemies in any future conflict over Taiwan.

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