National security expert Colonel John Mills wrote Wednesday (March 10) that the Biden administration’s internally divided Perception of the Chinese Communist Party continues, to some extent, President Trump‘s (Trump) hard-line stance toward the Communist Party. But its worst point is the ambiguity of the Biden Administration‘s policy toward the CCP, which is undoubtedly showing weakness and losing its deterrent effect for the defiantly vulnerable CCP, thus indulging the CCP’s daring to take international risks.
An excerpt from Mills’ article is translated below.
The Biden administration appears to be firm when it comes to the Chinese Communist Party.
On the one hand, Secretary of State Blinken seemed to reaffirm former President Trump’s hard-line stance on the CCP, even alleging that the CCP is committing genocide in Xinjiang.
But then President Biden caused great confusion when he responded to a softball question by attributing the CCP’s genocide of the Uighurs to different cultural norms. This nonsense from President Biden does not help those under his command and sends potentially ambiguous and even dangerous signals to adventurous totalitarian states.
This is not a good thing in international relations and is reminiscent of other false calculations in history, such as the world catastrophe in Europe that led to the outbreak of World War II, the Korean peninsula before the North Korean communists invaded in 1950, and Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
The Chinese Communist Party and its powers are watching, listening and carefully interpreting everything, so Biden’s unfounded statements could lead to the writing of hundreds of pages of analysis that would affect the top echelons of the Chinese Communist Party. The inconsistency of the current administration’s view of the CCP is obvious and will not go unnoticed.
The Positive Side
Some of the Biden appointees have shown a tendency to abandon political ideology and endorse the work of the previous administration. Admittedly, they don’t always show it in their mouths or in their demeanor, but in essence, they have shown an intention to abandon partisanship and continue with Trump-era policies.
Secretary of State Blinken has shown some measure of this wisdom and appears to be leading the way in getting tough on the misbehaving Chinese Communist Party. This is positive and reiterates the hope that there can be some bipartisan consensus in Washington on national security matters. According to National Public Radio (NPR), the Biden administration’s “tough stance on the Chinese Communist Party and Taiwan has exceeded many expectations.
Another key figure in shaping the administration’s China Policy is Dr. Kurt Campbell, who is the National Security Council’s coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs. In some respects, he has been hailed as a hawk on the Chinese Communist Party. Dr. Campbell was the architect of the Pacific Pivot under the Obama administration. This is a smart and timely initiative.
Other positive signs include Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo praising President Trump’s tariff policy against the CCP and promising to continue using the “entity list” against the CCP.
Retired Admiral James Stavridis, a Biden advocate and anti-Trump activist, also advocated a strong Anti-Communist military strategy (another name for Trumpism).
He wisely articulated a strong military deterrent and the establishment of red lines to contain the CCP, essentially along its coastline. He describes the CCP’s islands in the South China Sea as “sweet juice targets. The CCP has created an aquatic Maginot line that drains its own resources, ties its hands, and greatly simplifies the problem for (U.S.) allies, strategic partners, joint targeters and planners.
The Atlantic Council has just launched “The Longer Telegram” written by “Anonymous. The Atlantic Council is more in line with the Biden camp (they don’t like to target the Chinese Communist Party, and they don’t pay much attention to its actions in exerting influence in the United States), but the report expresses a very hard-line anti-communist strategy that also includes many of the claims made by China’s current Dangerous Committee. It is an encouraging glow of Trumpism and the ideas they may borrow.
The bad side
In addition to President Biden’s possible falsification of history and nonsense about the Uighurs, there are other confusing signs. One of them is the Democratic administration’s obsession with treaties. They like treaties, and they are a useful tool if they are implemented correctly and can be verified.
One of the Biden administration’s strategies is to seek the few arms limitation treaties (with the exception of the Biological Warfare Convention) that do not involve the Chinese Communist Party. The Biological Warfare Convention is only a trust and does not require verification, which gave the CCP the audacity to take a chance on the Wuhan virus with impunity. This is not a good or model treaty.
By wanting to engage in treaty dialogue with the CCP, the Biden administration may reverse and end plans to reintroduce low radiation levels of nuclear weapons into the U.S. arsenal. This would be a very bad and irresponsible move. Reintroducing these weapons would be a powerful deterrent to the expansionist Chinese Communist Party and Russia.
The ambiguity of the Biden administration’s policy on the Confucius Institute is also troubling. Whether President Biden has reversed President Trump’s direction and intent regarding the Confucius Institutes, or whether the Trump Administration has followed federal rulemaking procedures regarding the ban on the Confucius Institutes, are questions that are inconclusive at this Time. But either way, it appears that Confucius Institutes have been able to re-enter U.S. campuses.
It is alarming that Wall Street firms such as Black Rock continue to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to capital markets. But admittedly, members of the cabinet during the Trump administration, such as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, are also a problem.
Another concern is that some of Biden’s officials have shown sympathy for the Communist Party and have a subordinate relationship. Sam Faddis and Trevor Loudon have documented the subtle ties (or downright naked interests) of numerous officials within the Biden administration to the Communist Party.
All of the Biden appointees, some of whom may have made honest misjudgments in an era when China was seen as a partner in peace, but the web of Biden administration officials’ ties to the CCP is very troubling. It greatly undermines the Biden administration’s willingness and confidence to confront the CCP and reverse the Biden team’s infiltration by the pro-CCP.
The Ugly Side
The key term for analyzing Biden’s CCP policy is -: ambiguity. Ambiguity is a very bad idea in the face of a proud, expansionist state. As quoted in the “longer cable,” the CCP is “defiant” of vulnerability, and in most cases ambiguity is vulnerability.
At the moment, the CCP is under enormous pressure at Home. Its economy is inherently fraudulent, and as Hong Kong businessman and democracy activist Yuan Bowei told the CPAC conference, the CCP lacks the funds to artificially continue to develop a robust economy.
This is a very bad situation. Predictably, totalitarians under domestic pressure will do only one thing: expand violently outward. It is better for us to sweat and toil now to stop the CCP and be prepared than to pay a higher price later.
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