The Biden administration on Wednesday released its long-awaited National Security Strategy that identifies China as Washington’s “most consequential geopolitical challenge.”
While spending tens of billions on a proxy war against Russia, US officials have repeatedly made clear that they view China as more of a challenge in the long term. The strategy says that the top foreign policy priorities for the US are to “compete” with China and “constrain” Russia.
The strategy says that while Russia poses an “immediate threat,” China is the “only competitor with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to advance that objective.”
The strategy falls in line with the rhetoric that has come out of the Biden administration. Biden officials have frequently accused Russia and China of looking to change the so-called “rules-based order” and framed competition with the two countries as a battle between “autocracy and democracy.”
The strategy declares that “the post-Cold War era is definitively over and
a competition is underway between the major powers to shape what comes next.” To compete with China and Russia, the strategy says that the US will increase cooperation with “like-minded” countries and deepen alliances and partnerships.
While framing the relationship with China and Russia as a competition, the strategy also says that the US is willing to work with its “geopolitical rivals” on shared challenges.
Delivering remarks on the strategy, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan claimed that the US was not trying to divide the world into blocs. “we will not try to divide the world into rigid blocks. We are not seeking to have competition tip over into confrontation or a new Cold War,” he said.
Biden has kissed this world farewell. He is living in the world of the very old and mentally challenged, who focus on their immediate surroundings, trying to grope through each day, focused on not falling down, not going into the wrong room, etc. because all else, anything longer term, anything intellectually challenging is no longer possible. This is our president.
Ageism is the stupidest of all bigotries. You are doomed either to become what you mock and disdain or to die young.
Nope. The age of the Congress has gone up by an order of magnitude, leaving the decisions in the hands of those with most vested interest in status quo. Same is true of academia. Biden’s problem isn’t age-specific: it’s his mental capability which tends to be manifest as brain ages. Not always.
That’s more a defensive dodge than a meaningful response. And it contradicts your own post above.
Let me make it clear: Your post indicates that you are an unapologetic ageist, that you harbor contempt for elders and consider them generally less capable of intellectual rigor than younger people.
That’s bigotry.
I think you’re a valuable contributor to these threads; I read your posts, which are often artfully composed. On this issue, you should be reading instead of writing.
Also: It is not possible for the average or median age of Congress, or of any of its members, to have gone up by an order of magnitude. Perhaps your young brain is not yet clear on the relevant math. 😎
Let’s move along now.
LOL. Not order of magnitude but definitely steadily older. In 2018 half+ of senators up for reelection were over age of 65. Clinging on. BTW, I’m in my 70’s, admittedly the lower half of that decade as of now.
You made my day 🙂
Ain’t no LOL about it. Words have meanings.
Your age is irrelevant to this exchange. The world is, sadly, full of individuals in groups subject to prejudice, discrimination and various versions of mistreatment who share the prejudices and bigotries of the oppressors. That’s especially the case when a particular prejudice is widely shared and seen as acceptable by large segments of society.
Now, again, let’s move along.
Bigotry is an overused word. It’s a backstop, and it’s every bit as much a blank characterization as the attitudes it’s aimed at.
The poster has an opinion about Biden’s behavior based on his age. I’m over 79 and I can tell you that the poster is not wrong. What the poster calls it is a matter of choice, but the content of the post is right on the money. I don’t have to watch too many more of Biden’s performances to recognize what I see on occasion myself – unless you want to stipulate that the president isn’t human.
It’s a brutal job – if treated seriously – and Biden’s already too old for it.
You are direct and honest OB, I can read you all day!
Thanks. Beyond a certain age, one ceases to care if people are offended that other people also have opinions and (for now) have the right to express them.
All of you have well-developed defensive excuses for your bigotry. You’re still bigots, but it doesn’t bother you because you’ve convinced yourselves that you are not. Also, of course, you have chosen a flavor of bigotry that is widely socially acceptable.
You’re calling me a bigot based on the fact that I pointed out the fact that calling someone bigoted is just another form of bigotry?
Pretty funny there, red.
Dementia can happen at earlier ages (40s and 50s). Some dementia can strike people as early as in their 30s.
Biden does appear to show characteristics/symptoms of dementia. Ronald Reagan had dementia and yet he was left in office. Feinstein has been said to suffer as well. We need people who are sharp witted and capable, regardless of age. But the older you get, the higher the risk. That isn’t ageism, it’s fact.
Having said that, he clearly has handlers (the MIC,CIA and old neocon buddies). That makes it all the more dangerous.
“Biden’s National Security Strategy Names China as the ‘Most Consequential Geopolitical Challenge”
NO the biggest challenge is for senile angry Joey Biden to remember his own name.
Sullivan seems to be lying… And the truth is, he’s not even good at it…
You don’t play ‘the great game’ for decades and just quit on it…
Delivering remarks on the strategy, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan claimed that the US was not trying to divide the world into blocs. “we will not try to divide the world into rigid blocks. We are not seeking to have competition tip over into confrontation or a new Cold War,” he said.
It’s a little late for that dude.
Yes … he does this as he is dividing the world into blocks …
Well Russia really hasn’t panned out as much of a challenge. China OTOH much more economy, many more people. We do a lot of business with China this one is going to hurt
Day ain’t over yet.
Biden gets his National Security Strategy from sessions with the Magic 8-Ball.
I’m still laughing! 🙂
ROTFLMAO! rolling on the floor laughing my a– off!!!
The US of A, Earth’s Bull in the China shop.
Nicely stated OB, nicely stated.
Sullivan wants One Block dominated by the US
“Compete” and “constrain”?… They seem to be stuck on the “c” category…
Like the COLD WAR!
Do you nuke the competition?
I just figured out the exact “competition” Biden wants to win. The competition is for who is the most dangerous American President ever? I have a feeling he’s going to “win,” but the people who voted for him would not be able to celebrate his “win” for long.
If you care to expound, you’d be more than welcome…
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I edited it a bit to make it more clear. I guess the same competition could also be called, who is the last American President?
The US is not seeking to divide the world into blocs. It is seeking to create only one block. Theirs