Despite his lip-service to democracy and human rights, Biden keeps embracing autocrats and would-be autocrats

  • Cleverdawny@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Can anyone tell me what they’re wanting Biden to do here? Modi is the elected leader of India. Is he supposed to use the influence of the US and try to interfere in Indian politics? Degrade our relationship with India in a futile attempt to get Modi to stop being an asshole?

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Biden opened his address to the summit by describing his motivation for holding it: “in the face of sustained and alarming challenges … democracy needs champions”.

    More recently, Biden invited Benjamin Netanyahu, who is presiding over the destruction of Israel’s democracy by targeting its judicial system, for an official visit to the United States.

    In 2005 Modi, then the chief minister of Gujarat, was denied entry to the US because of his role in ethnic violence that left over 1,000 people dead, the vast majority of them Muslims.

    According to a recently declassified report from the British Foreign Office, the Hindu mobs’ “systematic campaign of violence has all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing” and “Narendra Modi is directly responsible.”

    The National Registry Act, already implemented in the Indian state of Assam, is a seemingly contradictory effort to expel illegal immigrants.

    Jack Kirby, a US national security official, has made light of objections to Modi, declaring that “India is a vibrant democracy.


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