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The Chinese ambassador to New Zealand, Wang Xiaolong, has sent a letter full of criticism of the U.S.-led democratic world to New Zealand MPs while claiming that China had a different system of democracy.
Wang accused the United States of having a sense of superiority and spreading “false” narratives of democracy versus authoritarianism.
He claimed that countries with flaws had “little credibility” to lecture others and alleged that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) pursued the values of freedom, democracy, and human rights.
He said the CCP would be “more than happy” to share its values and perspectives with anyone interested but hated to be preached to and have “others,” referring mainly to the United States, “impose” its values on the CCP.
Along with his three-page letter, he attached two reports by the Chinese Foreign Ministry titled “The State of Democracy in the United States: 2022” and “U.S. Hegemony and Its Perils,” both of which accused American democracy of being a failed system and dividing the world.
The first report, published on March 20, makes numerous accusations against the United States, including that it is splitting the world into two camps, democracies and non-democracies, and supplying arms to Ukraine for money.
Quoting Belarussian, Singaporean, and Russian state media, it said that American democracy was failing and was no longer the “gold standard.” Belarus and Singapore are closely linked to the Russian and Chinese regimes.
It reiterated that the CCP saw former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan as a “major political provocation” that was made to supposedly challenge CCP sovereignty.
It also dubbed the AUKUS pact as a “racist clique” where the United States has “ganged up” with Australia and the United Kingdom.
