Communist China is betting on a return to the status quo ante of American acquiescence to, and support of, its hegemonic ambitions through comprehensive "Engagement" and outright appeasement under a Biden administration.
As Secretary of State Mike Pompeo noted in a September 2020 speech to the Wisconsin state legislature on China's malign influence in the U.S., "When he [Xi] uses the word 'cooperation' and 'opening up,' he means that the Chinese Communist Party wants to create arrangements that benefit the Chinese Communist Party," in Xi's own words, "To put China 'in an undefeatable and invincible position.'".
Wang therefore presented the not-so-implicit CNN caricature of the Trump administration's revolutionary effort to marshal every element of national power against the CCP. In fact, he explicitly claimed that the "Ensuing 'whole-of-government' [U.S.] strategy that mobilizes all resources available to take on China is going in a wrong direction." One must ask, though: a "Wrong direction" for whom? And what of China's whole-of-society effort to become the world's singular preeminent superpower?
How could any American leader in his right mind cooperate with Communist China over a coronavirus that it was primarily responsible for spreading around the world-covering it up from day one, allowing it to spread from its shores, hoarding personal protective equipment and then cynically flooding the world with shoddy versions of it, threatening to use its control of medical supply chains to deprive sick Americans of relief if criticism of China persisted, and using the resultant chaos and bloodshed as an opportunity to expand its sphere of influence both at home and abroad?
The Biden camp has also indicated a desire to "Engage" with Communist China in the realm of space, which would likely prove to be a strategic disaster for America.
This is to say nothing of Biden team members' and prominent potential appointees' disturbing dealings with the CCP; the fact that Biden's defense of his pick for secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin, consists of not a word about China at all-while highlighting all manner of other perceived threats; and perhaps most importantly, the numerous officials from past Democratic administrations with whom Biden has surrounded himself, few if any of whom have ever sought to challenge the status quo of American support for the CCP's ambitions.
The sum total of a Biden China policy at this point seems to be multilateralism.
https://www.newsweek.com/communist-china-preparing-eat-joe-bidens-lunch-opinion-1558822
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