2024-03-20 08:05:00
▲The 3rd Democracy Summit Ministerial Meeting was held on the 18th at the Shilla Hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul. The photo shows President Yoon Seok-yeol applauding with the attendees. / Provided by the Korean Presidential Office
China continues to criticize South Korea, the host country for the 3rd Democracy Summit. On the 19th, China’s state-run media, the Global Times, wrote in an editorial, “It’s gradually gotten to the point where no one wants to hold a democracy summit, and if South Korea takes it on, it’s likely to get burned,” and “South Korea will hold a democracy summit. “We need to fully understand that hosting the event will not increase our influence in the international community or make us the world’s central nation.”
The Global Times reports, “The Biden administration in the United States…
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▲The 3rd Democracy Summit Ministerial Meeting was held on the 18th at the Shilla Hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul. The photo shows President Yoon Seok-yeol applauding with the attendees. / Provided by the Korean Presidential Office
China continues to criticize South Korea, the host country for the 3rd Democracy Summit. On the 19th, China’s state-run media, the Global Times, wrote in an editorial, “It’s gradually gotten to the point where no one wants to hold a democracy summit, and if South Korea takes it on, it’s likely to get burned,” and “South Korea will hold a democracy summit. “We need to fully understand that hosting the event will not increase our influence in the international community or make us the world’s central nation.”
The Global Times reported, “The third meeting of the Democracy Summit, which was proposed and launched by the Biden administration in the United States, is being held in Seoul, South Korea from the 18th to the 20th,” and criticized it as the “Sanpo Summit.” . This means that it does not attract public attention, has little international influence, and is not active among all walks of life. The newspaper also pointed out, “The United States will hold a presidential election this year, but for reasons that everyone knows, Washington itself is not convinced that this year’s democracy summit will not be the last.” This means that if President Biden loses to former President Trump in the US presidential election in November, there is a possibility that the summit may not be held.
The reason for the series of criticisms in the Chinese media is believed to be that Taiwan’s Digital Minister Audrey Tan personally attended the summit’s expert roundtable the day before. At a briefing on the 18th, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lin Jian said, “We strongly oppose South Korea’s invitation to Taiwanese officials.”
On the 19th, the second day of the summit, a civil society-related event was held by the Institute of East Asian Studies and four international organizations. Uzra Zeya, the U.S. State Department’s undersecretary for civil security, democracy, and human rights, said in a congratulatory message that “a strong democracy absolutely requires a strong civil society.” North Korean defector Kim Il-hyuk, who testified at the United Nations Security Council last August regarding human rights violations in North Korea, also attended.
On the evening of the 20th, a plenary session among the leaders of each country will be held in an online format. President Yoon Seok-yeol said at the State Council, “The third Democracy Summit was held in South Korea because the international community highly values South Korea’s democracy.”
Reporter Kim Jin-myung
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