In his first foreign policy address since taking office at the State Department last Thursday, President Joe Biden said he would counter China’s attacks on human rights, intellectual property and global governance, but added in a turn of phrase: “We are prepared to work with Beijing when it is in America’s interest to do so.” He stopped short of seeing the Chinese Communist Party as its most dangerous enemy, as Trump does, and instead called China the United States’ “toughest competitor.
Does the Biden Administration want to “work” with Beijing if it serves the interests of the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, but not the interests of the Chinese people? Is the U.S. national interest paramount, or is human rights and justice paramount? The national interest orientation is in fact no different from the America First proclaimed by Trump, except that Biden’s policy toward China is more appeasing and leaves room for cooperation, while Trump, after several rounds of negotiation and entanglement with the CCP, went from disappointment to despair, and from despair to start a desperate counterattack.
Who is stealing joy when Biden takes power? An article by Wei Zongyou, a professor at the Center for American Studies at Fudan University, “China-US relations have a chance to turn around, but patience is still needed,” bluntly expresses the heart of Chinese officials: “The Trump Administration‘s pressure, decoupling and provocations on issues such as trade and economy, science and technology, humanistic exchanges, Taiwan Strait, South China Sea, Hong Kong and Xinjiang have pushed relations between the two countries to the brink of full-scale confrontation. Because of this, those who are concerned about the development of U.S.-China relations finally breathed a sigh of relief after Biden’s election.”
A comparison of Biden’s speech on Russia and the U.S. will reveal a very specific and hateful targeting of Russia, viewing Russia as America’s number one enemy: “American leaders must face the challenge of a new moment in the rise of authoritarianism, including China’s growing ambition to compete with the United States, and Russia’s determination to undermine and disrupt American democracy.” He said Russia interfered in the U.S. election and persecuted dissident leader Navalny. The most serious human rights persecution in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, the torture of more political prisoners, and the Communist Party’s deliberate cover-up of the Epidemic were not mentioned. Biden’s intention to protect the Chinese Communist Party is evident in both his falsehoods and reality.
Chinese military planes recently crossed the center line of the Taiwan Strait to cause trouble, apparently because Xi Jinping was testing the reaction of the Biden regime. The coup by the Burmese military triggered an international outcry, and when the UN Security Council voted to condemn it, it was met with a vote of opposition from China.
The stability of the Taiwan Strait is only possible if U.S. warships “unilaterally” firmly defend the established rules to safeguard Taiwan’s security and peace, which the UN Security Council was unable to do with its verbal condemnation of the coup in Burma. In contrast to North Korea’s nuclear tests, Trump’s indefinite multilateral meetings, in which he drew a red line for Kim Jong-un and showed the sword for problems that language cannot solve, have led to a period of relative quiet on the Korean peninsula. And now Biden is at his wits’ end over Myanmar, which is a matter of the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy, subverting the nascent democratic regime, which is in fact the Communist Party of China breaking the Indo-Pacific democratic front.
Biden told the international community that the United States is back. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has made it clear that she will not take sides on China, and French President Emmanuel Macron recently said that while the European Union is closer to Washington’s position because of shared values, it should not partner with the United States against China. Europe’s traditional allies, like Biden, speak of national interests rather than value positions, in fact defining their cooperation with the CCP in an interest-oriented manner.
With the international community’s so-called multilateral and coalition allies appearing so uncoordinated and united, what dilemma will Biden’s so-called patience with China be in? In 2017, former Deputy National Security Advisor Bomen said, former Trade Representative Lighthizer showed a chart for his cabinet showing “these various conversations that the U.S. and China have gotten into over a 20-year period, and yet the U.S. trade deficit with China and China’s (CCP) intellectual property violations have escalated.” Bomen warned the Biden administration not to fall into Beijing’s trap over and over again. If Biden’s patience with the Chinese Communist Party is on a four-year cycle, not only will he be setting himself up for injustice, but it will be at the expense of U.S. national interests.
The Chinese Communist Party has signed a never-to-be-enforced agreement
The CCP is best at unification and infiltration, using interests to break up the multilateral coalition of its opponents, and also at signing agreements that will never be enforced and then delaying the issue through endless meetings, while the market of 1.4 billion people behind it is coveted by multinational capitalism, which will actively lobby their respective governments to bend the knee to the CCP, choosing to ignore it even when it has grown the economic and technological power of the rising CCP.
As the Trump administration distinguishes the CCP from the Chinese people, there are arguments that the Biden administration will divide Xi Jinping from the CCP regime, so what can Biden do to unite international allies, deny Xi a voice in the international community or block his access to Europe and the United States in order to force him to change or prompt his ouster?
Divorcing Xi from the Communist regime will prove to be only a cold joke in the spring of 2021.
(Original title: Biden no longer an enemy of the CCP?)
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