Jake Sullivan, a close adviser to new President Joe Biden, on Friday outlined four key points of Biden’s new policy: fix American democracy, work with allies, win the technology of the future, and let the Chinese Communist authorities bear the consequences of what they did to Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Taiwan…
Jack Sullivan held a conversation with Trump‘s national security adviser Robert C. O’Brien at the United States Institute for Peace, a think tank, on Friday. In the conversation, he described four priorities for the U.S. president’s policy.
The first point, Sullivan said, is to fix American democracy. China, he said, “is trying to prove that the Chinese model is better than the American model, based on the dysfunction and divisiveness of the United States. So first the U.S. must fix its own democracy, both “democracy itself” and “racial” and “economic” inequalities, to better deal with China and make it “suffer the consequences” of its “belligerent” behavior.
AFP said Sullivan confirmed in this conversation the firmness the U.S. government has shown so far toward China, even showing in some ways “continuity” with Donald Trump’s policy toward China.
Second, Sullivan said, we must recognize that “we will be more effective when we act hand in hand with our democratic allies. Together, the United States and its European and Asian allies represent “well over half of the world economy,” which gives the United States the necessary weight to respond to China’s advances, get results and defend some principles.
Sullivan endorsed the “Quadruple Alliance” of the U.S., Australia, India and Japan created by former President Trump to counter China’s influence in the Indo-Pacific region. He said, “We need to maintain and grow this strategic alliance.” Trump’s former adviser, O’Brien, expressed satisfaction with Sullivan’s Perception, congratulating the Biden team for making a “good start” on China.
The third point, Sullivan said, is to win the “technology of the future” competition. He stressed that “this will require close cooperation with our allies and partners, along with “aggressive and ambitious public investment within the United States.
The fourth point, Sullivan said, is to make the Chinese Communist authorities “pay the consequences of their actions” for the “genocide” (as Washington calls it) of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, for “removing Hong Kong’s broad autonomy” and for their belligerent behavior and threats against Taiwan.
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