WASHINGTON: President-elect of the United States Joe biden He has said he wants to make sure China abides by the rules and announced that his administration will rejoin the World Health Organization.
Biden responded to a question Thursday about his comments during presidential debates that he wanted to punish China for the way Beijing has been behaving. He was asked if that could include economic sanctions or tariffs on China, the world’s second-largest economy.
In April, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from who, accusing the UN organization of failing to monitor the emergence of the coronavirus when it began to spread in China.
“It’s not so much about punishing China, it’s about making sure China understands that it has to follow the rules. It’s a simple proposal, ”Biden said during a meeting with a bipartisan group of governors in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.
He said that is one of the reasons his administration will rejoin the World Health Organization.
“We will rejoin the first day as well and it is necessary to reform, recognize and rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement. And we have to make sure that the rest of the world and we come together and make sure that there are certain correct lines that the Chinese understand, ”said Biden, a Democrat.
President Trump’s four years in power were the worst phase in US-China relations, as the ruling Communist Party of China led by President Xi Jinping struggled to deal with what Chinese officials say is the leader. The most elusive and unpredictable American since former US President Richard Nixon. in 1972 he established ties with the communist nation.
During his tenure, Trump, a Republican, aggressively lobbied on all aspects of US-China relations, including with his relentless trade war, challenging China’s military control in the disputed South China Sea, his constant threats to Taiwan and calling the coronavirus a “China virus” “after it emerged from Wuhan in December last year.
Chinese strategic experts said that Biden’s entry into the White House is expected to provide an opportunity to make progress in resuming high-level communication and rebuilding mutual strategic trust between the two major countries.
A day earlier, Senator Jim Risch, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released a majority report titled “The United States and Europe: A Concrete Agenda for Transatlantic Cooperation in China,” to promote greater collaboration between the United States and Europe. in the challenges. raised by China.
“We must be prepared to work with our trusted allies and partners to counter an increasingly contentious China that seeks to undermine prosperity, security and good governance in all regions of the world,” Risch said.
According to the report, the United States and Europe increasingly agree that China poses significant political, economic and even security challenges. Legislators and parliamentarians on both sides of the Atlantic have played an active and leading role in changing approaches to address these challenges.
The next step is to turn this growing agreement into a concrete and constructive transatlantic agenda to defend shared interests and values.
he report presents concrete ideas for collaboration on six key strategies: defending against malign political influence, protecting the integrity of international organizations, addressing anti-competitive business and economic practices, investing in future technologies, and shaping the way they are used , tackling China’s security implications strategic investments in energy, transportation and digital infrastructure through “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) and invigorating alliances in Africa and the Indo-Pacific.
The Chinese military has been showing its muscles in the strategically vital Indo-Pacific region, and is also involved in highly controversial territorial disputes in both the South China Sea and the East China Sea.
Beijing claims nearly the entire 1.3 million-square-mile South China Sea as its sovereign territory. China has been building military bases on artificial islands in the region also claimed by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
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