Minxin Pei is professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and a nonresident senior fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
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China smart not to overreact to Biden's Summit for Democracy
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Wang Yi, pictured in Rome on Oct. 31: the Chinese Foreign Minister charges that the purpose of Washington's Summit for Democracy is to preserve its hegemony and to defend its domination in the world in the name of democracy. © Reuters
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