As the president heads to Japan and Australia, some say Washington and Beijing must lower the temperature.
Biden is traveling to Australia and Papua New Guinea as well as Japan on the seven-day excursion, which is also aimed at bolstering support for Ukraine, combating climate change and tackling global inflation. But more than any other issue, the trip is meant to counter China, a global superpower that will not be at the meetings but will be very much top of mind., to the concern of many foreign policy experts.
“The best way to establish a constructive relationship with China, in which there is an understanding about the larger framing, is to do that diplomacy within the context of a strong allied and partner engagement,” said a senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to preview the president’s trip. “And that’s exactly what we’re trying to do.”
Like the Japan visit, Biden’s stop in Papua New Guinea is aimed squarely at shoring up the global alliance against China, especially its expanding military operations in the South Pacific. China recently signed a pact with the Solomon Islands that allows the country to request security aid from Beijing, and in 2018, Papua New Guinea became the first South Pacific nation to sign up for China’s global infrastructure program known as the Belt and Road Initiative.
When Biden took office, he sought to take a more assertive posture in the region, including an effort to wrap in smaller countries that had long felt neglected. The administration last year hosted a U.S.-Pacific Island summit in Washington, bringing leaders together to negotiate new security arrangements.in a counter to China’s military expansion in the Indo-Pacific region.
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