Editor's note: Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political analyst. The article reflects the author's views and not necessarily those of CGTN. 

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made an excellent remark about political systems across the world while speaking with the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations last week. He wisely noted that "Democracy is not Coca-Cola, which, with the syrup produced by the United States, tastes the same across the world. The world will be lifeless and dull if there is only one single model and one single civilization." The top diplomat also condemned the U.S.'s description of his country as "authoritarian" simply because its democracy is different than America's. These are valid points and deserve to be expanded upon in order to enlighten others further. 

The primary contrast between China and the U.S. is that the former supports political diversity while the latter aggressively imposes its envisioned political conformity upon all others. This explains why the People's Republic of China (PRC) never attaches any political strings to its economic deals nor makes ultimatums regarding any of its partners. In contrast, the U.S. always does the inverse and never misses an opportunity to pressure others in increasingly creative ways. In other words, it's actually the U.S. that's an ideologically driven state and not China, unlike what the Western mainstream media has falsely claimed in recent years. 

The PRC isn't just pragmatic, but also respectful towards all of its partners. The Communist Party of China (CPC) harbors no supremacist beliefs and doesn't plan to export its governing model abroad. This is the best approach for one to have and ensures that its partnerships remain everlasting.  

The U.S., on the other hand, is infamous for its self-deluded belief in so-called "American Exceptionalism," to which end it obsessively seeks to force all others to change their ways in order to replicate its own radically. This approach is counterproductive and has generated immense resentment against the U.S. across the world. 

What's most ironic about this observation is that domestic American politics are nowadays focusing on the merits of diversity, yet its foreign policy is exclusively predicated on conformity. This clear disconnect is attributable to the so-called "culture war" that's spiraled out of control over the past year and has led to profound changes in American society since then. Nevertheless, these changes do not seem to stand any chance of influencing its foreign policymakers, who remain convinced of their system's superiority relative to all others. 

Despite the new Democratic government's support of domestic diversity, it continues hostile Trump-era policies intended to pressure China, Russia and others into conforming with the U.S.'s political demands. This suggests some obvious hypocrisy on the part of the Biden administration and perhaps even a lack of sincerity with respect to the domestic causes that it supports.  

After all, if it genuinely believed in the merits of diversity at home, it wouldn't try to snuff out political diversity abroad. This observation makes one wonder whether the Democrats are exploiting well-intended pro-diversity causes at home as part of a power struggle against Republicans.

Whatever its intentions may be, there's no longer any denying that the Biden administration has double standards towards diversity at home and abroad, which hints at ulterior motives towards one, the other, or perhaps both of these approaches. China, meanwhile, doesn't apply any such double standards.  

The country itself remains so diverse that some minority groups even have their own autonomous administrative divisions which include regions, prefectures and counties. On the foreign front, China never tried to pressure anyone to conform to its domestic political system but instead not only respects, but celebrates, their differences. 

Diversity is naturally occurring, whether it be among ethnicities, religions, governing systems or whatever else. It is, therefore, against nature itself and arguably a violation of international human and legal rights for anyone to attempt to get rid of diversity, which is exactly what the U.S. is trying to do all across the world through its messianic zeal in imposing its political system onto all others.  

Nobody can take America's newfound domestic support for diversity seriously until it finally starts applying the same principles abroad like China does. Until that happens, the world will remain unstable as the U.S. aggressively tries to eliminate political diversity. 

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