Sullivan speaks at the Queen’s Theatre in Delaware on Nov. 24, 2020, after being nominated by Joe Biden as national security adviser.
On Jan. 29, President Joe Biden’s new national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said he must “clean our own house first” and build strength in order to address challenges such as the Chinese Communist Party, showing a clear difference in policy toward China from the Trump administration.
“Right now, the most important national security challenge facing the United States is how to organize our own house, how to reinvigorate it.” Sullivan said at a virtual seminar on “Passing the Baton in 2021” held by the Institute for Peace, a U.S. think tank.
He said the U.S. is currently facing an Epidemic, an economic crisis, threats to the Constitution and the republic and the resulting domestic divisions, climate change and other problems.
According to the Voice of America, the “baton handover” conference is the Institute of Peace’s handover ceremony for national security advisers to successive U.S. presidents, which has been held since 2001. The meeting also included Trump’s national security adviser Robert O’Brien and Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser to President Bush Jr.
O’Brien, a former national security adviser, said, “The number one important issue that we pass on to the next term is the Chinese Communist Party, an overconfident and rising Communist Party, becoming the primary, generational geopolitical challenge for the United States.”
In his conversation with Sullivan, O’Brien said the security challenges facing the U.S. are first and foremost the Chinese Communist regime, followed by Iran, Russia, and transnational sex crime groups.
While acknowledging these challenges, Sullivan quoted Biden as saying that “domestic affairs is diplomacy and diplomacy is domestic affairs” and that the focus now is on “cleaning our own house” and building a position of strength in order to meet the challenges, including great power competition with China and other transnational challenges that affect the American way of Life. He said that China has attacked the United States, saying that the United States is not a country that has been attacked.
He said China has attacked the United States, saying it is divided and pointing to the failure of the American system. Communist leaders have also made clear on more than one occasion that China can offer an alternative development model to the democracy and free markets that the United States has been promoting for decades. And the most powerful way to deal with China (the CCP) is to let the American model continue to shine.
“The first step, back to reinvigorating America. Reviving the foundations of our democracy, which involves everything from the democratic system itself, to issues of racial equality, to economic equality, all the aspects that make the American model shine.” He said.
Sullivan stressed that the United States must join forces with its allies and partners in democracy. This is because the U.S. economy is only about a quarter of the world, but by joining forces with its Asia-Pacific and European allies, the democracies exceed half of the world’s economy. This will not only provide better checks and balances, but also allow democracy to speak with one voice, defend the principles we stand for and be more resistant to aggressive Chinese (CCP) measures.
In the future, he said, the United States will invest heavily in advanced technologies to maintain leadership in areas such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and clean energy technologies. Finally, the U.S. will have to persistently speak up for its values and be ready to defend it at any Time and make China (CCP) pay for its actions in Xinjiang, Hong Kong and possibly Taiwan.
O’Brien: Trump Succeeds in Building International Consensus to Address Communist Threat
Unlike Sullivan, predecessor O’Brien has made several public speeches emphasizing that the CCP poses the greatest threat to the United States.
In a speech at the Hudson Institute on Oct. 28, 2002, O’Brien said that under President Trump’s leadership, the United States has achieved remarkable results in areas such as national security and diplomatic efforts, and has succeeded in building a new international consensus to address the Chinese Communist threat, something that has not been done under previous administrations.
Over the past four years, the U.S. has faced unprecedented challenges to foreign policy and national security, particularly the Chinese Communist virus (also known as the new coronavirus, COVID-19) pandemic and the Communist regime’s global hegemonic ambitions, according to Voice of America.
“The stereotypical American conventional view is that it is only a matter of time before China will first liberalize its economy and then will liberalize its politics. And President Trump is the first major leader to recognize that this traditional view is wrong.” O’Brien said in his speech.
What the international community is seeing instead, he noted, is that China (the Communist Party of China) is increasingly moving toward more nationalism, more mercantilism and more authoritarianism. Especially since Xi Jinping took power, the CCP has become more committed to Marxism and Leninism.
He cites the achievements of the Trump Administration, such as the signing of the first phase of a trade agreement with the CCP in January 2020 through a trade war and negotiations with the CCP. The agreement prohibits China (CCP) from forcing technology transfers from U.S. companies and opens up the Chinese market to tens of billions of dollars in U.S. agricultural sales and financial services companies, and partially addresses the manipulation of the exchange rate.
In addition, the Trump administration has worked to prevent Chinese companies with ties to the Chinese Communist Party from entering the U.S., such as huawei, and to block easy access by Chinese intelligence and spy organizations to private U.S. data and state secrets; and to restrict Chinese (Communist) military personnel from using the student visa process to enter the U.S. and steal U.S. technology and intellectual property.
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