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Gap between President Biden's push for democracy and global opinions
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Increasingly, people around the world no longer see the US as a model of democracy.
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WASHINGTON - In Europe on his first trip abroad since taking office, and in speeches even before he was elected to the White House, President Joe Biden framed global politics as a contest between democracies and autocracies.
At home and abroad, America has to show democracy can still deliver for its people, says Mr Biden, who has called reinvigorating democracy overseas central to his foreign policy and fundamental for America.

