A 27-minute video interview by CGTN – China’s Global Television Network – hosted by Xu Qinduo.
I was grateful for the opportunity to speak about how democracy can be improved and elevated to the global level. In a globalising world, it is bizarre that we can only vote for our national parliaments, which determines less and less of our country’s future.
There is so much we can do to democratize the world. Let’s not refrain from thinking a bit more boldly than usual. And we should also respect that democracy can be implemented in different ways in different cultures.
If we do not think constructively about our possible ‘futures’ but get stuck in the past and present doom and gloom, we shall have no future – because of no vision and no hope. The future is the only thing we can change!
Let me add that it is always a joy to experience the respect, professionalism and kindness of the people who make CGTN what it is.