[Nicholas Goldberg] Is democracy failing? Xi Jinping says it is, and he’s not entirely wrong
ViewpointsMay 3, 2022
US 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 Chinese President Xi Jinping in which Xi 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. Biden d...