Blinken: U.S.-China relationship is ‘adversarial’ in some ways.
Speaking to foreign news reporters at an online briefing, Blinken said that in either relationship, “the common denominator is the need to engage with the Chinese Communist Party from a position of strength.
It’s not a matter of containing the CCP or suppressing it,” he said. It’s about building a system based on international rules, and all of us have put a lot of effort into building that over the last 75 years.”
Blinken’s comments echoed remarks he made on Sunday (March 28) when he said he saw “increasing confrontation” in relations between the two countries.
“The relationship is clearly becoming more confrontational in terms of confrontation and certainly in terms of competition,” Blinken told CNN on Sunday. But he added that there are also areas of cooperation between the two countries.
The United States on Saturday, March 27, condemned the Communist Party’s “counter-sanctions” against two U.S. religious rights officials and a Canadian lawmaker in connection with Beijing‘s controversial treatment of Uighur Muslims and other minorities.
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