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During the presidential campaign, Biden described Xi Jinping as a “rogue.” But he had a close relationship with the current leaders of China. In 2013, Biden visited China and visited Xi Jinping, who was promoted to president.
The president of the United States, Biden, accepted on Sunday an interview with the American media CBS. In the interview, he said the United States does not need to “conflict” with China, but must engage in “extremely fierce competition.”
Biden said he has not spoken with Xi Jinping since taking office. However, Biden said he “knows him well” and explained that he spent more time with Xi Jinping as vice president than any other world leader.
He commented on Xi Jinping as “very smart” and “very tough”, “and, I don’t mean criticism but facts, there is no democracy in his bones.”
In the last two years of the Obama administration, he formulated a new strategy for China. And the position on Beijing is tougher than when Trump took office.
At that time, Obama gradually turned Iraq and Afghanistan’s military assets into Asia, and presented a high-profile “Asia-Pacific rebalancing”; economically, it brought together 12 countries to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to isolate China.
During those two years, Biden met with Xi Jinping eight times as the then vice president. The New York Times quoted Biden’s comment on Xi Jinping: “This person will keep us busy.”
“Not like Trump”
“I will not do like Trump. We will focus on international rules,” Biden said. Last week, he also voiced a similar view, saying he would work more closely with the allies to fight China.
Ma Zhao, associate professor of East Asia at Washington University in St. Louis, believes that Biden is more inclined to “multilateralism” and will follow Obama’s “Asia rebalancing” strategy and focus on uniting allies and countries with interest. in building a consensus on the competition. with China.
“But China has experienced the ‘Asia rebalancing’ strategy, has some experience to deal with it, and is more prepared for Biden’s return to the traditional diplomatic line. After experiencing the ‘unpredictable’ Trump, China is more willing to deal with the ‘wisdom’. Biden took care. “
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China’s attitude
China’s attitude towards Biden’s comments is relatively positive. A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said: “Like any other country, differences between China and the United States are inevitable, but the common interests of the two countries far outweigh their differences. China-United States cooperation can achieve many important things that benefit both countries and the world. Faced with global challenges such as the new corona pneumonia epidemic and climate change, the areas where China and the United States can and should cooperate are not shrinking, but are becoming more and more spacious “.
On February 2, Yang Jiechi, Director of the Central Committee on Foreign Relations Office, said in a video conference with members of the Board of Directors of the National Committee on US-China Relations that in recent years, due to the policies extremely erroneous anti-China implemented by the Trump administration in the United States, the relations between China and the United States have faced two problems: serious difficulties unprecedented since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the country. Yang Jiechi rarely uses direct negative expressions.
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US Secretary of State Blincol contacted the foreign ministers of many countries when he took office. A day before the call with Yang Jiechi, he promised the foreign ministers of Great Britain, France and Germany that the United States would face international problems in a coordinated manner with them.
A few days later, Yang Jiechi spoke with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, hoping that the United States would correct the “mistakes” mentioned above, and secondly he said that “everyone should take care of the affairs of his own country, “and hoped that the United States will deal with Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet and other matters. Do not interfere in the internal affairs of China.
Brinken’s response was tit for tat, stating that “the United States will continue to defend human rights and democratic values, including pressure on China on issues like Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong.”
According to analysts, the two major powers China and the United States are increasingly viewed as strategic competitors, and the undercurrent of strategic competition will continue.
Gary Hufbauer of the Peterson Institute for International Economics believes that China and the United States have launched a “second cold war,” and there may be ups and downs in the battle. For example, Biden may not be as fierce in speech as Trump. But it is basically impossible for Sino-US relations to go back to the times of Bush and Obama.
