Faced with video links with 80 world leaders across two oversized electronic panels, the US President said, “I think this is an urgent matter for all of us because the data we see is largely pointing into that wrong direction.”
Biden cited studies that found that global freedom has been on the decline for 15 consecutive years and that more than half of all democracies have seen decline in the past decade.
He acknowledged that one of those countries in democratic decline was his own. Since the November 2020 election – the result of which is still not accepted by many supporters of the loser Donald Trump – the state-level Republican vote has been under attack, where gerrymandering is still done by both Republicans and, to a lesser extent, Democrats.
Biden has been accused by American progressives of hosting a global summit while not doing enough to combat democratic relapse at home. In New York, activists held a “Democracy Funeral” outside the United Nations to protest US voter suppression laws.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/dec/10/joe-biden-democracy-summit-supreme-court-abortion-texas-us-politics-live