At a high-level meeting between the U.S. and China on the 19th of last month, the meeting was full of fireworks, and not only did Yang Jiechi, a member of the Communist Party’s Politburo, make a pointed remark to U.S. officials, “The U.S. is not qualified to speak to China from above, the Chinese don’t eat that!” Afterwards, the U.S. representative also fired back that “China’s behavior poses a threat to the rules-based global order.” In response, former U.S. President Donald Trump’s first deputy national security adviser wrote that “U.S.-China relations have reached an irreversible point in the new Cold War after high-level talks between the two countries ended.”
K.T. McFarland, the first deputy national security adviser to former President Trump, writes that the United States and China have been in a Cold War for years, but now the president of the United States, and even those on the left of the Democratic Party and in the Biden administration, who have a more pro-China stance, are aware of the threat posed to the United States by the Chinese Communist Party.
McFarland begins by analyzing the mindset of the Beijing authorities from an ideological standpoint. She points out that the Communist Party’s leaders expect to make the Communist Party strong, so the Communist Party plans to replace the current U.S. dominance in the economic, technological, military, political and diplomatic spheres, and to rewrite the rules of the international order in order to gain maximum benefit.
McFarland pointed out that no matter how much we negotiate with the Chinese Communist Party, flatter and scold, we cannot change their direction. Because the liberal order that the United States has been preserving for the world for the past 70 years is fading. In other words, the world order will soon be replaced by a new world order “with Chinese communist characteristics.
McFarland also mentioned in his article that if the United States is to preserve the liberal world order, democratic values, and free markets in the 21st century, it must now come up with a new plan to deal with the Chinese Communist Party, just as the United States established a new world order to deal with the Soviet Union and Communism after World War II, and it still needs to deal with the Chinese Communist Party in the same way.
McFarland also offered advice to the Biden administration, acknowledging that Biden had begun to forge a four-nation alliance between the United States, Japan, Australia and India, but she stressed that “if there is no concrete action, and the four countries become a collective complaint about the Chinese Communist Party’s misdeeds, then the Biden administration will only be at a disadvantage.”
McFarlane pointed out that if the U.S., Japan, Australia and India could concretize their joint actions against China, stand against the CCP and take actions to stop the CCP’s expansion, it would be possible to maintain the international order and not be bullying by the CCP.
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