Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday delivered a long-awaited speech meant to outline the Biden administration’s China policy and called Beijing “the most serious long-term challenge” to the US-led “international order.”
Blinken maintained that China is the administration’s top priority despite all the support the US is giving to Ukraine in its fight against Russia. “Even as President Putin’s war continues, we will remain focused on the most serious long-term challenge to the international order – and that’s posed by the People’s Republic of China,” Blinken said at George Washington University.
Blinken said China is the top threat because it is “the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to do it.”
The speech was meant to define Biden’s China policy, but Blinken mostly repeated accusations against Beijing that US officials have repeatedly made. Blinken also sent mixed messages by claiming the US doesn’t want a Cold War while also presenting Beijing as a major threat to the US-led global order that needs to be contained.
Blinken was scheduled to deliver the speech earlier this month, but it was rescheduled after he tested positive for Covid-19. Ahead of the speech, sources told Politico that Blinken wasn’t expected to say anything surprising and that Biden’s China policy would remain similar to the Trump administration’s.
Biden has continued Trump’s China policy by maintaining tariffs, increasing the US military presence in the South China Sea, and stepping up support for Taiwan. Both administrations emphasized the importance of building alliances in the Asia Pacific to counter China, prompting Biden to sign the AUKUS military pact with Britain and Australia.
Biden concluded his first trip to Asia as president this week where he announced new anti-China initiatives with the Quad and launched a new trade deal for the region, known as the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF). But those initiatives were overshadowed by the president pledging to intervene militarily if China invades Taiwan, which he later walked back.
ry with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to do it.” — I guess 6000+ nukes won’t reshape the international order.
Blinken is a greater threat than either Russia or China.
Blinken has a case of “loose lips, sinks ships”… Biden is already MIA…
Someone has a potential ‘war’ up their sleeves…
I personally think that the greatest threat to world peace today is Antony Blinken. Fortunately, I think he’s going to become a potato too hot for even Biden to handle as the mid-term elections approach.
No, Israel loves the guy.
Antony Blinkin is greater threat than Joachim von Ribbentrop.
Of course China’s a threat. They raised 1 billion citizens out poverty and are still working on this problem. Hi-Speed trains to everywhere, new roads, bridges. Then have the nerve to help other countries with the same instead of bombing them.
Amerika is doing none of the above. The 1% owned Amerika govt. is sending as many as us on Main Street as they can into poverty and at the same keeping every one at each others throats with propaganda.
Nicely stated!
Thanks
“The 1% owned Amerika govt.”Notonly American government but America itself. Blinken knows it he is quite happy about it. Reason is obvious
Love to grab his coat before it goes to the dry cleaner. The money stashed in his pockets would probably be enough to purchase a new car.
The “US led, International order?…” Well, there is a bit of arrogance, it sticks in the throat…
Indeed, if the US “leading” means war with China, it’s time to stop leading. If we stop writing the rules for everyone else to live by, policing the world we get a lot easier and less bloody.
Perhaps we could make it a bit more anarchistic?….
Blinken is nuts, even for a Europe-Firster. The WEF Reset ends any possibility of competing with China, even if not especially if it ends with the West repudiating all its fiat debt through a new monetary order.
The U.S.-centred world order was never greater as when at peace with China, with global supply chains keeping the US consumer and US dollar sated and growing. All the US had to do was stop corrupt spending on pointless new social programs at home and endless wars for NATO Europe.
Only Europe was falling behind the natural geopolitical giants of the US, Russia, India and China, so they had to end US-led and US centred globalism.
Cant we make another [axis of evil]? Wrap a flag around it. Aerosol some apple pie smell on it and then bring out those contracts. Yes indeed, cold war is cold cash, down the hole never to be found, for audit, that is…
https://www.observertoday.com/opinion/the-observers-view/2022/01/u-s-weapons-missing-artillery-reason-for-worry/
The threat from China is they are doing business the old fashioned way, and not by threats or gunboat diplomacy.
They almost have us beat economically, especially as the US decays,but lack grain and oil. Testosterone and hatred may mandate gobbling Taiwan, or much more.
Looks like Blinken is about to pivot away from his disaster in Ukraine towards China now.
Pivot from one disaster to another.
Biden’s the worst disappointment to the left in a generation. How will they ever expect to win young progressives ever again when their foreign policy is exactly the same as the neocons.
To be honest, Bye-Done was never “left”.
He’s an old warmonger from way back, yet never served in the military himself; I believe he suffered from a hangnail.
Blinken is talking out of both sides of his mouth.
While he says that we dont want another cold war, he will try to get the losers who sided with us against Russia , to go against China. And while he says that he believes in the one China principle, his boss claims that we will defend Taiwan’s independence. Who is his audience? Who believes this double talk?
Blinken claims that China is trying to destroy the rules based world order, established after WW II, to wit:
Vietnam, bombing of Cambodia, Invasion of Panama, invasion of Grenada, bombing of Yugoslavia, bombing of Iraq, bombing of Iraq II, bombing of Libya, Syrian war, occupation of Syria, stealing Syria’s oil, invasion of Afghanistan.
Seems more like the rules are made on the fly.
Either Blinken is living Lala land or he is liar of the worst kind.
China is an even greater threat than Russia.
Damn straight, you Blinkin’ idiot, if you want to go to war with them.
Blinken Says US Is The Greatest Threat To The World