Updated: November 20, 2020 6:50:21 am
China perceives a “rising India as a rival” and wants to restrict its strategic partnership with the United States, its allies and other democracies, the US State Department said in a report. He stressed that China intends to displace the United States as the world’s leading power.
The Chinese 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.
The State Department report is under the leadership of Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo, who has criticized Beijing’s aggression in recent months.
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In New Delhi last month, Pompeo said that Indian and American leaders and citizens see with “increasing clarity” that the Communist Party of China (CCP) “is not a friend of democracy and the rule of law,” and that EE .UU. That the people of India face threats to their sovereignty and freedom. “
The detailed State Department policy document highlights that China is undermining the security, autonomy and economic interests of many nations in the region.
“China views burgeoning 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 islands of the Pacific, “it said.
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The 70-page report claims that awareness has grown in the United States, and in nations around the world, that the ruling CCP has unleashed a new era of great-power competition.
“However, few discern the pattern in China’s forays 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 fundamentally review the world order, placing the People’s Republic of China (PRC) at the center and serving the authoritarian goals and hegemonic ambitions of Beijing.
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“In the face of China’s challenge, 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 the United States’ treaty-based allies Japan, South Korea, Australia, Thailand and the Philippines, as well as emerging strategic partners such as India, Vietnam, Indonesia and Taiwan,” he said.
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 assumptions and develop a new strategic doctrine to address the primacy and scale of China’s challenge, “he said.
The report also highlighted the contagious coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan. “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 nature and scope of China’s challenge, ”he said.
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