There is a consensus among China observers that Beijing hopes for a Joe Biden win this November, because the last time Biden was in charge, as vice president of the United States, China completed its control of the South China Sea.
Using its own map with a "Nine-dash line," China claims that it has historic rights to about 90 percent of the South China Sea, including those areas that run as far as 1,200 miles from mainland China and which fall within 100 miles of the coasts of the Philippines, Malaysia, and Vietnam.
According to the Chinese Communist Party's own publication, "On the South China Sea issue, [Xi] personally made decisions on building islands and consolidating the reefs, and setting up the city of Sansha. fundamentally changed the strategic situation of the South China Sea.".
As the Obama administration stood by, China was able to reclaim an estimated 3,200 acres of land on seven features in the South China Sea.
The administration's soft approach and wishful thinking gave China a four-year strategic window to turn the South China Sea into China's backyard pond and the most dangerous water on this planet, a reality the rest of the world now has to live with.
The Trump administration ended China's unchallenged expansion in the South China Sea by announcing in July that the United States supports the 2016 Hague ruling and opposes several of Beijing's claims in the South China Sea.
The last time when Biden was in charge, China completed its expansion in the South China Sea.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/11/why-beijing-hopes-for-a-biden-win/#slide-1
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