Joe Biden warns that autocrats in China are gauging health of US democracy, on anniversary of Jan 6 attack on Capitol


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One year after violent loyalists to president Donald Trump assaulted the US Capitol and tried to stop the formal certification of his election loss, US President Joe Biden warned that Beijing was watching to see if America’s democratic system would crumble into autocracy.

“From China to Russia and beyond ... they’re betting America will become more like them and less like us,” Biden said on Thursday morning from the Capitol building, in a speech marking the first anniversary of the deadly January 6 attack.

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