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Anxiety, in theory at least, should be concentrated in countries like Turkey, Hungary, Poland and the Philippines. All of these states are allies of the United States, but their current leaders are really mad at democracy.
Even India, which likes to call itself the largest democracy in the world, would hardly meet the standards at the moment. Narendra Modi has taken populist maneuvers, and the elections there are no longer completely free.
Finally, there are questions about how much attention will be paid to the West in general. So far, Trump has not acknowledged defeat in the presidential election and has generally spent the four years doubting the strength of American democracy.
According to analysts, how Biden’s team will answer these questions may indicate what the new administration’s foreign policy will be – for example, which countries Washington will show sympathy for and which it will walk away from.
“It is important not to play with a double standard” 15 minutes approved by Vytis Jurkonis, director of Freedom House’s representative office in Lithuania.
Photo by Rokas Lukoševičius / 15min / Vytis Jurkonis
And the chairman of the Seimas Foreign Affairs Committee, Sigismund Pavilionis, was simply glad that active talks on democracy were starting again in Washington: “It is sincerely gratifying that the president-elect is planning such an initiative.”
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