Foreign Affairs: US Sacrifices Democracy to Rivalry with Russia and China
In the race for leadership with Russia and China, the US is sacrificing democratic values. Such a danger of great power confrontation called journalists from Foreign Affairs.
The authors of the material point out that the opinion of the American establishment that the conflict between the great powers is a pure boon for the United States stems from a distorted reading of the history of the Cold War. On the one hand, the rivalry with the USSR did initiate many important legislative acts and spur innovation, but it also had a detrimental effect on freedom of speech, racial and economic equality, and democratic pluralism.
Journalists come to the conclusion that democratic values have become the main price of confrontation with China and Russia. As an example, it is noted that xenophobic attacks against Russian and Chinese immigrants have intensified in the United States. “This is a disturbing echo of the racist exclusivity of the Cold War,” the authors of the article say.
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It is noted that the failure to objectively evaluate the Cold War left the United States unprepared for the risks that great power rivalry poses to a modern democratic society. The Joe Biden administration believes that this rivalry will benefit the American middle class and the world, but in reality it only benefits China’s leader Xi Jinping.
In this regard, the journalists of the publication advise American politicians to reconsider their priorities towards caring for their own citizens and abandon the belief that any measures of state social support are of a communist nature.
On July 16, US President Joe Biden said that the country would not cede leadership in the Middle East to Russia or China. He pointed out that Washington does not intend to leave behind a vacuum that Beijing or Moscow will immediately fill.
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