US excludes China from democracy debate, invites Taiwan, teasing China will escalate tensions

- Turkey, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are also off the list Weighing India and Taiwan: Dragons are silent on this

Washington: India has been invited to a virtual summit to be held on December 9 and 10 by the United States to discuss democracy. But China has been kept out of that Surat. Taiwan, on the other hand, has been invited. Naturally, this has irritated China, and tensions between the two will only increase in the coming days. Pakistan has been included in the list released by the US State Department, but in addition to China, Turkey has also been left out of the list. Although Turkey is in fact a member of the US-led NATO organization, it is not included in the list, and Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are also off the list. The list is published on the US State Department's website.

Speaking of Middle Eastern countries, Iran has been left out of the list. While Iraq and Israel are invited. Arab countries, on the other hand, did not include their allies Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar and the UAE.

If the Biden administration has invited Brazil and it has also been invited despite strong criticism of its President Jair Bolsonaro's hardline decisions. In addition, Biden knows that the bowler is a supporter of Donald Trump.

Several European countries have been excluded from this virtual summit. One of them is Hungary but Poland is invited.

The African countries include Congo, South Africa, Nigeria and Niger. The Virtual Summit was originally scheduled to take place in August, but coincidentally did not take place, the White House said, adding that the summit would have three main "themes". Struggle against dictatorship, fight against corruption and respect for human rights.

India and Taiwan have been invited to the summit. While China, on the other hand, has been excluded, Drag has not commented. He has kept silent. But it seems certain that deteriorating US-China relations will only get worse.