Crafts: Director – Newscast WXIN/FOX59 Directing Composite – Ray Masterson A state-of-the-art hypersonic technology testing facility will be constructed in the Purdue Aerospace District adjacent to the Purdue University campus. WISH-TV has been a CBS affiliate since 1956. While the fragility of democracies in the West has been apparent to the whole world, Indian democracy has remained resilient.Wxin wttv That ended with Tribune’s purchase in 2002, because the company did not want to cannibalize its news audience on WXIN. And India’s economic rise within a democratic set-up is itself a challenge to Chinese propaganda on an authoritarian model’s efficacy. India’s role as the world’s largest democracy is critical in this discourse, and as Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted in his remarks at the summit, “the India story has one clear message to the world-that democracy can deliver that democracy has delivered and that democracy will continue to deliver."Įvery democracy is a work in progress and responding to democratic aspirations in a society riven with multiple socio-economic fault-lines is a huge challenge, but India has repeatedly proven naysayers wrong on the country’s democratic consolidation. This brings us back to the fundamental issue of democracy and reasons for the emergence of new geopolitical fault-lines.
This is an important US shift away from viewing politics as subservient to economic interests towards a reassertion of the primacy of political objectives. Fernandez, exhorted the US business community to not see themselves as mere bystanders in the US-China strategic engagement, but “be mindful how your activities can affect US National Security and the fundamental values we hold dear."
In a recent intervention, the US undersecretary for economic growth, energy and the environment, Jose W. The US is beginning to challenge this more frontally than ever before. The very global economic system that propelled China to the global hierarchy’s top has been undercut by Beijing through its market distortion and coercive trade practices. The West has been forced to reckon with the challenge China poses to the global economic and political order after decades of ignoring a fundamental contradiction in its approach. American policymakers today are left complaining that “Beijing is pursuing a state-centred economic model that tilts the field by deploying policies that disadvantage US businesses and other foreign companies in sectors deemed ‘strategic’." Significantly, China started using its global economic clout for geopolitical ends, as reflected in its trade coercion of Australia since 2020 and more recently Lithuania. That political freedom would smoothly flow from economic liberalization was the consensus across the political and academic world back then.īut even as China used the opportunities it got to emerge over the past two decades as the world’s largest economy in purchasing power parity terms, the second largest at market exchange rates, and the world’s largest trading nation, democracy was nowhere to be found. That was the time when Francis Fukuyama’s “end of history" narrative still resonated with policymakers, exemplified in the views of former US President Bill Clinton when he suggested that “importing one of democracy’s most cherished values, economic freedom", would eventually bring political changes in China. It is ironical that this contestation of the very meaning of democracy is happening two decades after China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) In December 2001 that has had a transformative impact on the global economy as well as global polity. Assessing the myriad political systems in the world against a single yardstick and examining diverse political structures in monochrome are in themselves undemocratic." There was a joint pushback from China and Russia, which lambasted the Biden administration as exhibiting a “Cold-War mentality" that would “stoke up ideological confrontation and a rift in the world." The Chinese Communist Party went even further and hosted its own International Forum on Democracy, where it claimed that China is a “true democracy that works" as it “integrates process-oriented democracy with results-oriented democracy, procedural democracy with substantive democracy, direct democracy with indirect democracy, and people’s democracy with the will of the state." It released a white paper titled China: Democracy That Works, which enunciated that “there is no fixed model of democracy it manifests itself in many forms. The summit saw the participation of more than 100 leaders, who underlined growing challenges to global democratic aspirations such as corruption, socio-economic inequalities, disinformation and the growing role of Big Tech.