Posted by Tomski
on January 19, 2022, 11:26 am, in reply to "What criteria determined the "democracies"?....nm"
Look at the participants in the democracy summit Dec last year:
https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/11/22/who-s-in-and-who-s-out-from-biden-s-democracy-summit-pub-85822
Apologies for the source : )
Hence my comment about India. It doesn't fit.
Otoh, Reuters have let the cat out of the bag, yada yadda.