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Democracy is also defined by the relationships countries have with each other, either amongst democracies or between democracies and authoritarian regimes.
Humanity is still currently bound to planet Earth. Regardless of our nationality, we are all Earthlings. It is shortsighted to view the democratic regime of any country, in isolation from any other country, whether democratic or not.
Just like in the second level of democracy we considered the relationship between individuals, we ought to properly consider the relationship between countries.
Trade between countries should adhere to democratic principles of fairness...
Massive immigration plays an important role in some countries' politics. The only human and sane ways to solve massive immigration and all the human misery that it entails is to create a fair and just international order where democracies strengthen each other and where each country has the ability to stand on their own economic and institutional feet.
Authoritarian regimes like Russian and the People's Republic of China use the weaknesses in the electoral systems of democracies against them. This is seen at different levels. One aspect is electoral interference, often using social networks and the unregulated speech within them. Another example is the way the PRC waits for electoral alternance from one governing party to another in order to steal one of the few diplomatic partners that remain to the Republic of China, Taiwan.
One critical way to counter such aggressive influence by foreign authoritarian powers is obviously to improve our electoral systems, which is the topic of the fifth level of democracy.
Democracies are at a disadvantage when facing autocracies: in the name of freedom of speech, entities backed by authoritarian governments are free to operate within democracies, occupy space within social networks and operate their own social networks. The problem is that the converse is not true.
In April 2024, the US government passed a bill giving Tiktok owners nine months to divest: such a move was seen as radical move. And yet, Western social media apps have been banned in the People's Republic of China for a long time: Facebook has been blocked since 2009 and so has Twitter; Instagram was blocked in 2014, etc.
This topic is related to the fifth level of democracy and the necessity to have accurate, truthful information. Those democratic principles can be used to monitor and curtail propaganda by authoritarian regimes within our democratic media landscape.
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China, is certainly the most isolated democracy in the world. What does it say that world democracies are prevented from having diplomatic relationships with the world's most impressive democratic success story? Despite push backs from the People's Republic of China, world democracies have taken notice.
The definition of democracy started with the individual. It ends with humanity as a whole and the best it has to offer...