White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday (Jan. 25) that the Biden administration has been conducting a review of Chinese Communist Party policies.
The Biden Administration plans to conduct an interagency review before moving forward or reversing a series of former President Donald Trump‘s policies on China, and then decide whether to move forward, including the delisting of several Chinese telecommunications companies.
The Biden administration is reviewing a number of regulatory actions and a series of relationships involving Chinese investments, and they are “just getting started,” Psaki said.
“They need to go through the interagency – so the State Department, the Treasury Department and a number of other agencies reviewing how we’re going to move forward – on the relationship with China, and our starting point is to take a patient strategy. ” She said.
“That means we will consult with our allies, we will consult with Democrats and Republicans, and we will allow the interagency process to review and assess how we should move forward with our relationship (with the Communist Party of China).” She added.
Pusaki reiterated that Biden is “deeply committed to ensuring that Chinese companies cannot steal and misuse U.S. data,” but she did not provide details or say whether Biden would continue former President Trump’s policies toward Chinese companies such as huawei and TikTok.
Speaking at a World Economic Forum videoconference today, Communist Party President Xi Jinping called on leaders to strengthen macroeconomic policy coordination and reinforce the role of the Group of 20 in global economic management.
In a White House press briefing, Psaki said Xi’s call would not change the Biden administration’s strategic approach to China (the Chinese Communist Party). We’ve seen over the last several years that China (the Communist Party) has become increasingly authoritarian internally and increasingly dictatorial externally,” she said. China (CCP) now poses a clear challenge to our security, prosperity and values, and the United States must respond with a new approach.”
During the campaign and transition, Biden vowed to flip much of Trump’s agenda, but in an interview with The New York Times after his election, he said he would not immediately roll back the Trump Administration‘s policies and tariffs on China.
“I think the best China strategy is to get every one of our – at least past allies – on the same page,” he said at the Time. “I want to make sure that we will prioritize investing in the United States and fighting to the end.”
Chinese companies such as Huawei and TikTok are seen as front companies for the Communist Party, and former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that unlike U.S. companies, Chinese companies operate under a different set of rules and their business practices are susceptible to the political influence of the Communist Party.
But these Chinese companies have always denied their ties to the Chinese Communist government.
The SEMI organization, which represents global semiconductor equipment makers, urged Monday (Jan. 25) that the incoming U.S. Commerce Secretary work with allies when it comes to curbing U.S. technology sales to China for national security reasons.
The organization has close business ties with Chinese high-tech companies. China is the world’s largest importer of chips, and U.S. chipmakers and equipment suppliers derive significant revenue income from China each year.
Trump Administration Chokes Chinese Communist Party on Technology
Since joining the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Chinese Communist Party has embarked on its unfair trade practices, which include funneling hundreds of billions of dollars in government subsidies to support its key industries. The CCP has also resorted to industrial espionage, cyber theft, forced joint ventures in exchange for market access, and acquisitions of foreign companies to gain access to sensitive technologies.
Rob Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the nation’s top-ranked technology think tank, said the U.S. Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the top-ranked technology think tank, said the biggest challenge to U.S. leadership in technology “is definitely China [the Chinese Communist Party].
Former President Trump had launched a series of export restrictions on Chinese high-tech companies, including Huawei, ZTE and SMIC, on national security grounds.
Last August, the State Department also announced the Clean Network initiative, which proposes five major initiatives to protect the U.S. critical telecommunications technology infrastructure, including Clean Carrier, Clean Store, Clean Apps, and Clean Internet. These initiatives include Clean Carrier, Clean Store, Clean Apps, Clean Cloud and Clean Cable.
The move marks the end of the U.S. market for Chinese carriers, apps and more.
Working with countries that share the same values has been one of the Trump administration’s priorities in the past. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Trump’s national security advisers have made several trips to Europe, Oceania and Asia to seek cooperation with allies due to security concerns over 5G.
“The Chinese Communist Party is distorting the proper use of technology, particularly around the application of artificial intelligence, reflecting a very different application than American values.” A senior U.S. government official told the Epoch Times last October, “So when artificial intelligence is used to imprison minorities, used to spy on people, that’s not the U.S. vision for the application of artificial intelligence, and that’s why we work with countries that share our values.”
The development of technologies such as artificial intelligence relies heavily on advanced chip technology, and the U.S. is one of China’s largest chip providers.
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