The 70-page report claims that awareness has increased in the US, and in nations around the world, that the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has unleashed a new era of great-power competition.
China perceives a rising India as a “rival” and wants to limit its strategic partnership with the United States, its allies and other democracies, the State Department said in a report, emphasizing that Beijing intends to displace the United States as the main power in the world.
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Prior to the transition of power from the Donald Trump administration to the administration of President-elect Joe Biden after the November 3 US presidential election, the detailed policy document highlights that China is undermining security, autonomy and economic interests of many nations in the region.
“China perceives growing India as a rival and seeks to push it forward to accommodate Beijing’s ambitions by compromising economically while restricting New Delhi’s strategic partnership with the United States, Japan, Australia and its relations with other democracies,” the report said.
“China is undermining the security, autonomy and economic interests of many others in the region, such as the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), including those in the vital Mekong region, as well as the nations of the Pacific Islands, ”the report added.
The 70-page report claims that awareness has increased in the United States, and in nations around the world, that the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has unleashed a new era of great-power competition.
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“However, few discern the pattern in China’s advances in all regions of the world, much less the specific form of dominance the party aspires to,” the report said.
The CCP aims not only at pre-eminence within the established world order, an order that is based on free and sovereign nation-states, that flows from the universal principles on which the United States was founded, and promotes the national interests of the United States, but also which fundamentally reviews the world order, placing the People’s Republic of China (PRC) at the center and serving Beijing’s authoritarian goals and hegemonic ambitions.
“Faced with the challenge of China, the United States must secure freedom,” the report said.
China, he said, seeks to diminish the influence of the United States by fostering the feeling in the nations of the region that China’s dominance is inevitable.
“The main targets include US treaty-based allies: Japan, South Korea, Australia, Thailand and the Philippines, as well as emerging strategic partners like India, Vietnam, Indonesia and Taiwan,” he said.
The People’s Liberation Army, according to the report, recently sparked skirmishes along its disputed border with India, killing dozens of people on both sides, and remains in a tense standoff with the Indian military.
Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a bitter clash in various areas along the Royal Line of Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh since May 5. The situation deteriorated after clashes on June 15 in the Galwan Valley in which 20 members of the Indian army were killed and an unconfirmed number of Chinese soldiers were killed.
The report also highlighted Beijing’s tough relations with Taiwan, which it claims as its territory.
“Beijing threatens democratic Taiwan, which it considers a renegade province, with the intention of reunifying Taiwan with the mainland, by force if necessary. And the PLA Navy and the Chinese Coast Guard increasingly challenge Japan’s administrative control over the Senkaku Islands, ”he said.
“The Trump administration achieved a fundamental break with conventional wisdom. He concluded that the CCP’s determined conduct and self-proclaimed goals require the United States and other countries to review the assumptions and develop a new strategic doctrine to address the primacy and scale of China’s challenge, ”according to the document.
The report also highlighted the contagious coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan. So far, the disease has infected 56,178,674 people and killed another 1,348,348 worldwide. The United States is the country most affected.
“The CCP’s recklessness in allowing the Wuhan-born novel coronavirus to turn into a global pandemic, coupled with the concerted disinformation campaign that Beijing launched to hide China’s guilt, should put an end to the doubts. However, many people lack a proper understanding of the character and scope of China’s challenge, he said.
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