On Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared in a foreign policy speech that the US relationship with China is the “biggest geopolitical test of the 21st century.”
Blinken said many countries pose challenges to the US but said, “the challenge posed by China is different.” He explained why the US is so concerned with Beijing and made it clear that Washington ultimately sees China as a threat to US global hegemony.
“China is the only country with the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to seriously challenge the stable and open international system — all the rules, values, and relationships that make the world work the way we want it to, because it ultimately serves the interests and reflects the values of the American people,” he said.
Blinken’s comments reflected a 24-page “interim” national security strategy that the White House released on Wednesday. The document reviewed many aspects of US foreign policy and identified China as a top threat to the US-led “international system.”
The document reads: “By restoring US credibility and reasserting forward-looking global leadership, we will ensure that America, not China, sets the international agenda.”
To counter China, the Biden administration is stressing the importance of working with allies and partners in the region. Part of this strategy is bolstering the Quad, an informal alliance made up of the US, Japan, India, and Australia.
The White House has taken other steps to prioritize China, including reshuffling the National Security Council by downsizing the team that handles the Middle East and increasing staff that works on Asian matters.
The Biden administration has continued sailing warships into the South China Sea and through the Taiwan Strait, and this provocative activity shows no sign of slowing down. The Pentagon is currently reviewing its posture in Asia and its overall China policy with an eye on increasing its footprint in the region.
China has been the largest and most powerful nation in the world for most of human history, though there have been gaps of chaos and reformation within that time during which others have led.
The most recent gap period is ending now and China is inevitably reclaiming its place. How we in the west accommodate ourselves to this eventuality is critical: Chinese history shows they typically prefer peace and trade to foreign conquest. But f we persist in insisting on our way applying to all, we will underwrite our own doom.
But the golden Trump was made in China!
” because it ultimately serves the interests and reflects the values of the American people, ”
The Iraqis disappointed them, by not garlanding them when when the invading troops arrived, and they are still paying the price.
Yes, and the US even now is calling Iraq a “partner” and the Iraqi militias, part of Iraq’s armed forces, which are bombarding US troops and mercs are “Iran-backed militias.” Meanwhile Iraq’s largest trading partner is. . .China.
Biden and Blinken are making America great again.
This just in from the US State Department:
United States, Eswatini, and Taiwan Identify and Create Partnership Opportunities
The embassies of the United States and Taiwan in the Kingdom of Eswatini (AKA Swaziland) partnered with the Government of Eswatini to host a virtual Partnership Opportunity Delegation. The virtual delegation included business leaders from the United States and Taiwan who met with Eswatini Minister of Commerce Manqoba Khumalo. The event featured U.S. Ambassador to Eswatini Jeanne Maloney, Taiwan Ambassador to Eswatini Jeremy Liang, the U.S. State Department’s Managing Director for Global Partnerships Thomas Debass, and Prosper Africa’s Managing Director for Africa Operations Brinton Bohling. . .here
Eswatini, officially the Kingdom of Eswatini, sometimes written in English as eSwatini, and formerly and still commonly known in English as Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its north, west, and south.
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Developing trade partners overseas, why is that a bad thing?
The US has plans to regain world control while the important world nations, especially China and Russia, are urging the development of a multipolar world. That fact hasn’t sunken into Washington yet, but it’s bound to. The US has lost its capacity to act as it has since WWII. High unemployment, a decrepit losing military and nonperforming corrupted professional politicians lead the way to the US being just another country, not a bad idea actually.
More, the US selling points are based on the US being a champion of democracy and human rights neither of which actually exist. . . .In recent news, the US claims that the ICC investigation of human rights losses by the Palestinians is wrong . . .because Palestine is not a nation!! They don’t qualify for human rights says Blinken!. .here . . . Wow!
The final exam is if Blinken can keep us out of a nuclear war. You ever notice how other countries “test” us, but we never “test” anyone. Just bless our wonderful non-imperialist hearts.
The US is desperately, yet vainly trying to hang on to its hegemonical aspirations. Reality is that we are heading for s multipolar world in which the US can also participate as an equal partner. The R&B initiative is steadily gaining traction as more and more countries are realising its advantages. Participating countries are developing their own infrastructure which lead to more trade opportunities with others and make these countries financially independent from strangulating INF debts. Before Covid19 China hosted annually two trade exhibitions, one in Beijing and the other in Shanhai, which were visited by many countries eager to sign lucrative trade deals. The only way for the US to stop this trend is war, but war with China (and Russia) will result in the US’s own demise. No matter how one looks at it the US is at the loosing end.
Blinken is adopting the Davos doctrine of the Western oligarchic think-tankers; and he’s right as far as it goes; but, belligerence is totally wrong. Much better look to adopting (what formerly, in a long ago era, we scornfully spurned), peaceful co-existence; and get down to the real #1 “…serious challenge the stable and open international system — all the rules, values, …blah, blah, blah,…that reflect the values of the American people,”, i.e., Global Warming.
China challenging “stable and open” international system? With all the wars we are waging, the world is mighty unstable. May not be a bad idea if anyone could calm the destabilizing urges consuming all American administrations since Clinton took office.
re: the Quad, an informal alliance
The Quad is a loose collection, not an alliance, best called a ‘dialogue.’ India eschews alliances because of its British colony experience, and is currently talkng to Russia about an ‘Asia-Pacific’ partnership with Asean to counter the remains of the US ‘Indo-Pacific’ failure. Other Asian countries will not ally with the US against China, that was apparent during Pompeo’s farewell Asia tour.
So the US strategy of ‘our alliances will conquer you’ is a Biden/Blinken pipedream not to happen. China’s emphasis on economic growth is a winner; US’s dependence on military alliances is a loser. China has forecast a 6% GDP growth this year, something the US and Europe can only dream of.
Yes, easy to “win” when you steal everyone’s stuff and copy it and throw foreign execs in jail for not surrendering critical IP, and kidnap then disappear journalists who report on your crimes. Go live in a police state that takes all your rights away without due process for saying the wrong thing on social media. Your worship of this human-rights destroying dictatorship is disgusting.
The militias in Iraq are not part of the Government of Iraq Military are not financed by the Iraq Government, they are financed and fully controlled as a proxy of the Iranian expansionist Government.
And you believe you know this how?
China’s growth is based on wholesale theft of Western designs. China is a totalitarian dictatorship hated by its own people. It has already threatened Taiwan with invasion even though Taiwan is completely independent and no threat to China. China is also actively trying to steal territory from India, Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan and Japan. It is committing genocide against Uighurs and has already destroyed Tibetan culture. Tibetans have lived under de facto martial law for decades. China’s leaders are entirely corrupt and have no compunction abusing its own people with impunity. If you think that is a government that should have more money or power than it has now, you are insane. Divest from China. Support Democracy not dictatorship.