White House press secretary Jen Psaki mentioned the “strategic patience” approach to North Korea under the Obama administration at a White House briefing in January this year, and it was discussed. A White House spokesman told The Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun on Feb. 9 that the policy of “strategic patience” does not apply to the Chinese Communist Party.
According to the report, Psaki’s remarks about “strategic patience” were seen as a risk that the Biden administration might repeat the Obama administration’s failure to ignore North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear weapons development process in its policy toward China, calling it “strategic patience. This has caused ripples in some parts of Japan.
Considering the Obama administration’s policy toward North Korea, a White House spokesman said, “In the past, the term strategic patience has been used to describe a particular policy approach.” He said, “We have no intention of adopting a strategic patience (policy) framework to develop a comprehensive strategy for the Indo-Pacific and China.” The Biden Administration is reviewing the Indo-Pacific strategy, which includes policy toward China, in consultation with regional allies and partner nations.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken noted in a CNN television interview on Aug. 8 that “former President Trump‘s tough line on the Chinese Communist Party was right as a basic principle.” In terms of specific policies, he said the U.S. will “respond to the Chinese Communist Party from a position of strength” by strengthening alliances, emphasizing democratic and human rights values, and building a U.S. military posture to deter aggressive Chinese behavior, based on the reflections of the previous administration.
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