China and Russia’s Summit for Autocracy




The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Russia have been competing with the United States for global influence. This competition has become more pronounced amid controversy surrounding China’s aggressive actions toward its neighboring island nation, Taiwan. Since the end of the cold war, China has increasingly become the leading global competitor to rival the influence of the United States. 

At times, the authoritarian regimes of Russia and China have joined together in foreign policy efforts to diminish U.S. global influence and expand their own. Despite this competition playing out on the world stage, the CCP publicly rejects the claim that China is competing with the U.S. By denying any intention to compete, this rejection serves as an attempt by China to claim the moral high ground as the world watches through the media.

Only a few months ago, the CCP ordered a record-breaking number of military aircraft to fly into Taiwan’s airspace. Leading researchers on foreign policy such as the Foundation for Defense of Democracies report that these incursions served as a provocation to intimidate Washington and Taiwan. The United States has been providing billions of dollars worth of military training and arms provisions to Taiwan in order to deter Beijing from political and military aggression against the small island nation. 

In light of these recent events, the CCP’s refusal to admit China is competing with the U.S. appears like another act of smart political theatre as China and Russia continue to strengthen each other’s position against the United States and its partners. The primary country that is getting in the way of China and Russia’s global expansion is the U.S. With its massive resources and large military, the United States has taken a leading role among other democracies in limiting the growth of authoritarian power and corrupt human-rights abusing regimes worldwide.

Russia is in partnership with China in the effort to paint the United States as responsible for trying to provoke a “new Cold War.” The two autocratic regimes disapproved of President Biden’s “Summit for Democracy.” According to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the summit’s goal was to galvanize the world into defending against corruption, promoting human rights, and preventing the spread of authoritarianism. Naturally, China and Russia, as the two of the world’s leading non-democratic and authoritarian regimes, did not support the summit and aimed to delegitimize the summit and its primary organizer, the U.S. Both authoritarian regimes complained that the summit only served to provoke division and confrontation.

More recently, the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act was passed in the United States, which included the sanctioning of a number of senior Russian officials and business affiliates associated with corruption and abuse. Both Russia and China publically protested this act, calling it a form of international bullying by the U.S.


Between China’s military aggression in Taiwan, Russia’s expansionist designs elsewhere in the world, and much of the international community’s efforts to reign in the leading authoritarian regimes, there is a contest between autocracies and democracies playing out. The authoritarian governments in Russia and China share much in common, especially a desire to discredit and weaken the United States to enable their own expansion of global influence.

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