Democracy is a pluralistic concept. People should practice it in light of their country’s social conditions. There is not just one form of democracy in the world. As long as people support it, all forms of democracy should be respected.
Democracy is diverse. The fundamental premise of democracy should be safeguarding the maximum benefit of people, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, political opinion or class.
China and the United States have contributed two types of democracies to humanity. It’s utterly wrong to insist that Western democracy is the only right democracy model and willingly impose such democracy on other countries.
“The cause of today’s turbulent trends in the world is a clash of values,” former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said at the second “International Forum on Democracy: The Shared Human Values” on March 23. “Diplomacy is about overcoming differences in values,” he said.
George Galloway, leader of the Workers Party of Britain and former member of parliament, shared his understanding of the democratic process at the second International Forum on Democracy: The Shared Human Values on March 23. “The form of democracy in Western countries is devoid”, Galloway said.
The global challenges we face today impose the need for a new paradigm of global governance beyond just optimizing nation-states’ self-interests.
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