You know you’re doing something right when you draw the ire of the Chinese Communist Party, and President Joe Biden has done just that by inviting Taiwan to be one of 110 delegations to next month’s virtual “Summit for Democracy.”
China is mad because it wants the world to continue believing the island nation belongs to Beijing and it can legally take it over whenever it so desires.
Instead, Biden is recognizing that Taiwan in fact is a fully functioning, independent democracy — which isn’t that far from admitting that it’s a nation in its own right.
When news of the invite broke Wednesday, Zhu Fenglian of Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office called it a “mistake,” noting that the mainland’s rulers oppose “any official interaction between the US and China’s Taiwan region.”
Beijing can lump it. It’s about time Taiwan got a seat on the world table, and it plainly has plenty to say on what the State Department set as the confab’s three principle themes — “defending against authoritarianism, fighting corruption and promoting respect for human rights.”
Which explains why Turkey didn’t get an invitation, though it claims to still be a democracy: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has crushed his nation’s once-free press, purged the judiciary and other formerly independent institutions and called do-overs for elections that don’t go his way.
More problematic is the case of Hungary, the only European Union member left off the invite list. Yes, Western liberals are atwitter over President Victor Orban’s illiberalism, but this is still a serious snub.
But the truth-telling on Taiwan and Turkey is the big news here: It’s good to see the Biden administration can get some big things right.
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