Secretary of State Antony Blinken will soon reveal a summary of President Biden’s China strategy. It's “basically ‘Trump-plus with sophistication’ but with partners and allies,” said a source familiar with the strategy’s contents.
“I can give you 100 reasons why it should have been out a year ago,” Glaser said. ”I understand why people believe that there isn’t a China strategy and so I think it’s just important to get it out there and I wish that they could release some part of it publicly and not just have a speech, but my understanding is that they’ve opted not to do that.
A national security expert briefed on the strategy’s contents on the basis of confidentiality confirmed that Blinken’s upcoming speech contains no bombshells. “The strategy document contains no surprises or serious deviations from Blinken’s previous comments on U.S.-China relations … [and] has, from the White House’s perspective, already been road-tested and ‘blessed’ by the inter-Agency,” the expert told POLITICO. “No one will refer to it as ‘bold,’ that is for sure [and] it leans heavy on emphasizing values [of] democracy vs.
The U.S. business community also wants a China strategy that will address the key underlying problems in the. “The [Biden] trade agenda is ‘competing where we should’ and we are not doing that — we are not talking with the Chinese about fair competition in their own market,” said Craig Allen, U.S.-China Business Council president. “We really do need a strategy that suggests positive alternatives to perpetual confrontation and antagonism.
Beijing is pessimistic about improving bilateral ties if the China strategy maintains current policy. “The US is going to great lengths to engage in intense, zero-sum competition with China, it keeps provoking China on issues concerning our core interests, and it is taking a string of actions to piece together small blocs to suppress China,” said Liu Pengyu, spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington.
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