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Original title: German media analysis: Biden will restart relations with China in steps
Reference News Network reported on November 27 that an article published on November 25 by the German weekly website “Time” noted that in view of the problems in the United States, the Biden administration will restart relations with China step by step. The full text is extracted as follows:
Biden’s future Secretary of State Anthony Brinken recently told CNN that Trump has weakened the US alliance, withdrawn from world politics and left a void that China can fill. Overall, Trump has seriously damaged America’s international appeal. Blinken believes that the challenge China presents is not so much its growing strength, but our own weakness.
Anthony Brinken and Joe Biden are advocates of multilateral solutions. This vision will also determine the relationship between the United States and China in the future, which will be the most important foreign policy challenge for the new American president. However, it is still not well understood how the Biden administration will specifically address this issue.
For Donald Trump, when he took office in 2017, China’s problem was very simple: He saw China as an exploiter of American workers. He believes that China is taking jobs from the United States, which is why it has launched the so-called trade war. But the most important impact is that Trump’s harsh anti-China comments in the US Congress have made criticism of China prevail not only in the Republican Party but also in the Democratic Party.
At present, the two parties in the United States largely agree that important technology products should not be exported to China. Just to prevent voters from thinking they are weak on the China issue, Biden will continue to implement this policy. It will also work hard to maintain America’s leading position in advanced information technology.
One thing Biden will definitely change after he takes office is his tone of voice. It will no longer be so hostile to the Chinese government. Biden and Brinken are not thinkers, but pragmatists.
However, the new president will be forced to focus on internal problems for the moment: Biden will have to control the new crown epidemic and its economic consequences. Most importantly, he will spend a lot of energy playing a reconciliation president to deal with the division of American society. Andy Rothman, a China analyst at consultancy Mingji Asia, also believes that the new government’s first step will only be to end the demonization of China. In the future, Washington will see China as a competitor. In light of the troubles in the United States, Rothman believes that the most likely scenario is that the Biden administration will proceed in steps.
First, academic exchanges that were halted during the Trump administration can be resumed, and then multilateral work can be resumed in the next stage, such as working with friendly countries to define areas where cooperation with China is significant (for example , on climate change or health issues). In what areas should multilateral pressure be exerted?
In addition, the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement initiated by Obama but canceled by Trump should be reactivated. Rothman suggested that only in the third phase should the US government try to show the leadership of the Communist Party that China can only fully realize its economic potential as a responsible part of an international institution.
(Editor in charge: Miao Su)
