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On December 9, the two-day-long Summit for Democracy was held. 111 countries participated in the summit hosted by the U.S. to deeply discuss the ways to defend against authoritarianism, fight corruption, and protect human rights. Professor Richard Youngs, a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe, describes the state of European and Asian Democracies and their shared commitments. The author points out that although there are shared concerns between European and Asian Democracies, there are significant differences in how they support democracy. Nonetheless, Professor Youngs argues that the two democracies can cooperate to help each other; European democracies can increase the Asian engagement in the summit and Asian democracies can re-energize European democracy policies. Through this, both democracies can show that the democracy process is not western-centric and not merely a U.S. assault on China.
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