U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will address the State Department at 11:00 a.m. EST on Wednesday to discuss U.S. foreign policy and address the challenges posed by the Chinese Communist Party.
The State Department previewed Blinken’s speech on U.S. foreign policy at the State Department on Wednesday (3) on its website on Tuesday (2).
“POLITICO previously reported that the Biden administration on Wednesday plans to develop elements of a national security strategy that places China (the Chinese Communist Party) at the center of the global challenges facing the United States, making little difference in terms of foreign and domestic policy.
In his speech at the State Department, Blinken outlined aspects of the strategy. According to Blinken, Biden will share his administration’s “interim strategic guidance” on its vision for the world later in the day.
According to Blinken, that vision includes finding solutions to challenges ranging from technological attacks to addressing climate change. In almost every respect, the United States may have to deal with Beijing.
Blinken acknowledged that the world is a different place today than it was in 2017, when Donald Trump took over as president, or even in 2009, when many officials in Biden’s current administration worked for then-President Barack Obama.
“We’re looking at the world with fresh eyes.” That includes thinking more about the way foreign policy, domestic policy and trade issues are intertwined, Blinken said.
Today, Blinken laid out the U.S. foreign strategy in eight areas, which include a commitment to ending the coronavirus pandemic; making climate change a major focus; improving diplomacy while maintaining military supremacy; demonstrating global leadership while also working with foreign allies; investing in technology; improving the U.S. immigration system; fighting corruption; and defending human rights.
- contain the Epidemic and cooperate worldwide
- Solve the economic crisis
Build a more stable global economy and improve the quality of Life for Americans, Blinken said.
“Some of us have previously advocated free trade agreements because we believed that Americans would share broadly in the economic benefits and that these deals would shape the global economy in the way we wanted,” he said, “but we have not done enough to enforce the agreements that have been made or to help more more workers and small businesses to fully benefit from them.”
“Our approach now will be different,” Blinken said. “We will fight for every job in America and for the rights, protections and interests of all American workers.”
- rebuilding democracy
Lincoln said, “The more we and all democracies show the world that we deliver (on our promises) – not only for our people, but for each other – the more we can refute the lies that authoritarian nations like to tell that that their system is a better way to meet people’s basic needs and hopes.”
- rebuilding a better immigration system
- revitalize our partnerships with allies
- Addressing the climate crisis and promoting a green revolution
7、Secure technological leadership
8, confront geopolitical challenges, especially with China
Blinken spoke of “China (under the Communist Party) as the only country with the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to pose a serious challenge to a stable and open international system that includes all the rules, values and relationships that make the world work the way we want it to.”
He also mentioned human rights violations by the Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong and Xinjiang. He said we will use diplomatic maneuvers to target these issues.
“We will not promote democracy through expensive military interventions or attempts to overthrow dictatorial regimes by force,” he said. “We have tried these tactics in the past. Whatever the good intentions, they haven’t worked. And they have given ‘democracy promotion’ a bad name while losing the confidence of the American people.”
Blinken Has Responded to China’s Continued Shout for “Cooperation”
Since Biden took office on Jan. 20, the Chinese Communist Party has continued to shout that it expects “cooperation,” and there are concerns about whether the Biden Administration will continue the Trump Administration‘s hard-line policy toward China. On several occasions, Blinken has said that President Trump is right to take a tougher stance against the Chinese Communist Party, but that his approach is wrong and his basic principles are correct.
For more than a month, the U.S. has condemned Beijing on human rights issues such as Hong Kong and Xinjiang, and has called its support for Taiwan “rock-solid. The U.S. military has been conducting frequent freedom of navigation activities in the South China Sea, and there is no sign of lifting tariffs on Chinese goods for the Time being.
In an interview on Hillary’s Podcast last Wednesday (25), Blinken stressed that “as China [the Chinese Communist Party] becomes more aggressive externally and more oppressive internally, the U.S.-China relationship is becoming increasingly hostile …… whether it’s hostile, competitive, or cooperative. The United States must respond to China (CCP) from a strong and forceful position.”
He said defending values is a source of American strength, and the U.S. must speak out and not turn a blind eye when Uyghurs are imprisoned in concentration camps in Xinjiang or when democracy is trampled on in Hong Kong. Blinken has endorsed the term “genocide” to describe what the Chinese Communist Party is doing in Xinjiang.
On Sunday (28th), 47 pan-democratic activists were charged with “conspiracy to subvert state power” by the Chinese Communist Party and the Hong Kong government. That night Blinken said, “We condemn the detention and charges against pan-democratic candidates in the Hong Kong elections and call for their immediate release.” “Political participation and freedom of speech should not be criminalized. The United States stands with the people of Hong Kong.”
In an interview with Canadian media on the same day, Blinken said the U.S. will continue to work with Canada in an effort to have the two Canadians held by the Chinese Communist Party released as soon as possible. The United States also participated in Canada’s signing of a related declaration with 57 countries in early February. He said, “It is totally unacceptable for any country to use the people of another country as pawns for political purposes.”
Blinken added that the United States, Canada and other countries should not only speak out for the Uighurs, but also take action whenever possible. He said, “Countries should not provide China [the Chinese Communist Party] with any products or technology that could be used to persecute its people. In addition, countries should not import goods that are produced through forced labor.”
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