
US President Joe Biden. File photoWASHINGTON Sep 6 US President Joe Biden described how Chinese leader Xi Jinping once warned him that democracies «cannot survive in the 21st century» and autocracies will become a more successful form of government.»I spent a lot of time with foreign leaders: China, Russia and other countries.The leader of China — Xi Jinping, with whom I spoke more than with any other head of state — told me that democracies cannot survive in the 21st century. He explained that democracies require consensus, and things move so fast that consensus is impossible to achieve. That's why autocracies will be a more successful model,» Biden said during his Labor Day speech.
China told how the rapprochement between Moscow and Beijing would «break» the United States As the head of the White House emphasized, he himself «strongly disagrees» with such an assessment.

