White House spokeswoman Sharkey said on 25 May that the United States is in “intense competition with China, and strategic competition with China is a signature feature of the 21st century.” She also said the Biden administration should approach the U.S.-China relationship with “strategic patience. Sharkey’s use of the term “strategic patience” was immediately associated by the media with the policy adopted by the former Obama administration toward North Korea.
In a press conference on the 25th, Sharkey said that the United States is in a “fierce competition with China” and will be patient while working with allies and maintaining a certain assertive posture toward China. Japan’s Kyodo News Agency 26 pointed out that mainland President Xi Jinping called on the Biden Administration to adopt a coordinated stance, but the U.S. side does not recognize China’s authoritarian moves, the current attitude is to remain concerned about the Chinese side.
Xi called on the Biden administration to change the policies of the former Trump administration that led to the extreme deterioration of U.S.-China relations, but the Biden administration does not intend to endorse China’s actions in disregard of international rules, Kyodo News said. The new administration’s security team structure has not yet been established, however, and no clear strategy is yet in sight.
Sharkey criticized the negative impact of China’s practices on U.S. labor and international institutions. She said that “President Biden will confront China with multilateralism” and “also deal with (China’s problems) with strategic patience,” reflecting a cautious posture.
In this regard, Kyodo News pointed out that “strategic patience” was the strategy adopted by the former U.S. Obama administration toward North Korea, i.e., to put pressure on North Korea while waiting for changes, but as a result, North Korea was tolerated to further develop nuclear weapons. During the Obama administration, Sharkey served as a spokesman for the State Department.
Sharkey said China is trying to steal the latest U.S. technology through espionage and said “China must be held accountable to ensure that U.S. technology is not used to strengthen Chinese military power.
As the “China threat” theory rises across party lines in the United States, Sharkey stressed that she “will work further with Republicans and Democrats in Congress to address it.”
In December 2009, then-Secretary of State Hillary, commenting on the visit of U.S. Special Envoy for North Korea Bosworth to North Korea, said that the Obama administration’s policy toward North Korea was “strategic patience while maintaining close consultation with other relevant parties in the Six-Party Talks. In fact, since then, U.S. officials have been talking to North Korea about the issue.
In fact, U.S. officials have rarely mentioned the term “strategic patience” in their talks since then, referring instead to the U.S. policy toward North Korea as a dual-track policy of “engagement” and “pressure. But the Obama administration’s “strategic patience” strategy was widely criticized by the U.S. right for failing to intensify the situation on the Korean peninsula or to prevent North Korea from developing further nuclear weapons, and for failing to achieve its original purpose.
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