US President Joe Biden has said that he anticipates the US rivalry with China will take the form of ‘extreme competition’ rather than conflict between the two world powers.
Biden revealed this in an excerpt of a CBS interview aired Sunday while stating that he has not spoken with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping since he became US president.
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‘He’s very tough. He doesn’t have — and I don’t mean it as a criticism, just the reality — he doesn’t have a democratic, small D, bone in his body,” Biden said.
‘I’ve said to him all along, that we need not have a conflict. But there’s going to be extreme competition,’ Biden said.
‘I’m not going to do it the way (Donald) Trump did. We’re going to focus on international rules of the road.’
China is considered in Washington as the United States’ number one strategic adversary, and the primary challenge on the world stage.
Trump had chosen open confrontation and verbal attacks, without serious tangible results for the enormous US trade deficit with China.
The Biden administration has indicated that it will maintain Trump’s tough line on China, in substance if not always in tone, on issues from trade to human rights — including what the United States has described as genocide against the mostly Muslim Uighur people in the western Xinjiang region.
‘With our allies and partners in both Europe and Asia, we represent well more than half of the world’s economy, Sullivan said, saying that provided “the kind of leverage we need to be able to produce outcomes.’
Biden has systematically dismantled many of the more controversial measures of the Trump era, while at the same time signaling that the United States will closely look out for its own interests.
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
