An increasingly powerful China is challenging the world order, acting “more oppressively” at home and “more aggressively” testing its growing influence abroad, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday night, Breitbart News reported May 3. But the Biden administration’s goal is to protect the “rules-based order” in international relations, not to “contain China.
According to Blinken, “China is the only country in the world that has the military, economic and diplomatic capability to undermine or challenge the rules-based order that we care so much about and are so determined to defend. But I want to be very clear on one point that is important. Our purpose is not to contain China, to hold it back, to suppress it. Rather, it’s to defend this rules-based order, and China is posing a challenge to that rule. Anyone who poses a challenge to that order, we will stand up and defend the rules.”
Blinken said, “What we’ve seen over the last several years is China acting more oppressively at home and more aggressively abroad. That’s a fact.”
According to Breitbart News, it is worth noting that Blinken did not rule out the possibility of China overtaking the United States as the dominant power in the world. On the contrary, the Biden administration appears willing to accept global dominance by the Chinese Communist Party, provided that the “rules” are upheld. Blinken’s approach implies that, unlike his predecessor, the Biden administration appears to believe that the role of the United States is to shape the Communist Chinese state into a more responsible superpower once it overtakes the United States, rather than to challenge its rise or limit its ambitions.
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