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    Nicholas Goldberg: Is democracy failing? Xi Jinping says it is, and he's not entirely wrong

    President Joe Biden likes to say that we are locked in a global battle pitting democracy against autocracy. In Seattle last week, he described a phone conversation he'd had with Xi Jinping in which the Chinese leader argued that democracy doesn't work anymore. Among other things, Xi said, democracy requires consensus, and mustering a consensus takes too long in a fast-moving world. Only ...
    by Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times Apr 29, 2022 3 minutes
    President Joe Biden participates in a virtual meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Nov. 15, 2021, in Washington, D.C..

    President Joe Biden likes to say that we are locked in a global battle pitting democracy against autocracy.

    In Seattle last week, he described a phone conversation he'd had with Xi Jinping in which the Chinese leader argued that democracy doesn't work anymore. Among other things, Xi said, democracy requires consensus, and mustering a consensus takes too long in a fast-moving world. Only autocracies are equipped to meet the extraordinary challenges of modern times.

    Biden, as he does every time he tells the story, dismissed the idea that democracy is passé or unworkable.

    But I've begun

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