Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce issued a warning in Parliament last week for Australia to rally its power in order to withstand what he lamented was the “fading of democracy” around the world. “We have seen the rise of China and, unfortunately, it is run by a regime, not a democracy,” he said on Wednesday while debating the annual Appropriation Bill to fund government services. “We have seen the fading of democracy across the world,” Joyce said. “We always believed that democracy would be the pre-eminent form of government and would grow into the future, but it has not. It is fading. And we are lucky and blessed that we live in a democracy.” His remarks come a week after UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab warned that the combined GDP of autocratic regimes would exceed that of democratic countries within the decade—if left unchallenged by democratic allies. Joyce warned that Australia may have to …