US President Joe Biden will gather world leaders in December for a virtual 'Summit for Democracy' that is being seen as a challenge to authoritarian China and an alternative to the traditional G20 meeting.
WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 10: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event on Senate passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in the East Room of the White House August 10, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Senate has passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill with a vote of 69-30. Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP
The gathering from December 9-10 will “galvanize commitments and initiatives across three principal themes: defending against authoritarianism, fighting corruption, and promoting respect for human rights,” it said. The statement did not give details of those invited to the summit, which comes after the leaders of the G20 — whose composition is determined by economic weight and includes authoritarian regimes such as China and Saudi Arabia — are due to meet at the end of October in Italy.The US invitation also goes beyond the restricted framework of the G7, a group of major Western democracies in which emerging countries are not represented.
During his four years in the White House, the Republican president abandoned multilateral approaches to foreign policy in favor of often testy bilateral exchanges with traditional allies.The White House described the summit as “an opportunity for world leaders to listen to one another and to their citizens, share successes, drive international collaboration, and speak honestly about the challenges facing democracy.
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