Another Summit for Democracy pointless: Quincy Institute

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Another Summit for Democracy pointless: Quincy Institute

STORY: Another Summit for Democracy pointless: Quincy Institute DATELINE: March 29, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:54 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the U.S. 2. STANDUP (English): XIA LIN, Xinhua correspondent STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): XIA LIN, Xinhua correspondent "The United States is co-hosting the second Summit for Democracy this week, which seems unlikely to accomplish anything useful, reported Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft on March 27, 2023. 'The first Summit for Democracy was a largely pointless exercise in (Joe) Biden's first year in office, and it raises the question of why the administration thought it was worth holding a second one.' The same controversies that marred the first summit are sure to accompany this one, and one problem is that the hosts may end up paying a political price for excluding some states from what is little more than a glorified talking shop. The Biden administration's 'democracy vs. autocracy' rhetoric has never been a good fit fo

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