During the election campaign, Joe Biden took a hard line with China, calling Xi Jinping a “bully.”
Beijing:
China must abandon its illusion that its relations with the United States will automatically improve under President-elect Joe Biden, a Chinese government adviser said, adding that Beijing should be prepared for a tough stance from Washington.
Zheng Yongnian, dean of the China Advanced Institute for Global and Contemporary Studies, a Shenzhen-based think tank, has said the Chinese government should seize every opportunity to mend ties with the United States, the South China Morning Post reported.
“The good old days are over … the hawks of the Cold War in America have been in a highly mobilized state for several years and will not disappear overnight,” Zheng said in an interview on the sidelines of the conference. on Understanding China. in Guangzhou recently.
Zheng, who attended a symposium hosted by President Xi Jinping in August to offer advice on China’s long-term strategy, said there is now a bipartisan consensus in the United States on containing China.
Zheng said President-elect Joe Biden could take advantage of public resentment toward China after he entered the White House. “American society is shattered. I don’t think Biden can do anything about it,” Zheng said.
“He is certainly a very weak president, if he can’t solve internal problems, then he will do something on the diplomatic front, he will do something against China. If we say that Trump is not interested in promoting democracy and freedom, Biden is. (President Donald) Trump is not interested in war … but a Democratic president could start wars. “
The relationship between China and the United States has deteriorated under President Trump for a variety of reasons, including the handling, trade and human rights of COVID-19.
Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress have drafted more than 300 different bills against China, and the most important ones addressing the disasters in Hong Kong and Xinjiang enjoyed full bipartisan support. The most potentially effective law, the Hong Kong Democracy and Human Rights Act, which Trump only reluctantly signed, was co-sponsored by Republican Marco Rubio and Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ vice president-elect.
Chinese foreign policy specialists have said they expect tensions between the United States and China to continue under Biden’s presidency.
At times during the election campaign, Biden took a hard line with China, calling Xi a “bully.”
His campaign also noted that he will denounce China for its repressive policies in the western region of Xinjiang.
Zheng said China was adamant in protecting its sovereignty and hoped that the next US administration “will meet China halfway.”
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