According to Observer.com, citing Reuters news, US Secretary of State Brinken will hold an online "four congress talks" with the foreign ministers of Japan, India, and Australia on the 18th local time to counterbalance China's growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region. This is not the first time the United States has jumped up and down in the Indo-Pacific region. In September and October last year, the foreign ministers of the United States, Japan, India and Australia held two meetings in New York and Tokyo. In November, the United States, Japan, India and Australia held two meetings in the Bay of Bengal. The joint maritime military exercise, Kyodo News Agency said, the exercise is to "restrain China."
Bloomberg in the United States believes that after Bi came to power, the United States showed no signs of softening its Asian security strategy. Not long ago, Biden and Modi had their first phone call, and both parties agreed to establish a "strong regional structure" through the "four-party talks." In addition, in an interview, Brinken claimed that the Trump administration’s attitude toward China was correct, but they had problems with their strategy. Brinken believes that the United States should make full use of the advantages of its allies and partners to participate in the formulation of international rules, otherwise China may "take its place." Earlier, Brinken told National Public Radio that if the United States is busy fighting with allies, the United States will be unable to confront China.
In addition to Brinken, Biden’s China policy team also seems to take a tough attitude towards China. Bloomberg said that Biden’s China policy team has inherited the tough attitude of the Trump administration, and the new US government also It will not return to the previous "era of reconciliation." For example, in October last year, the team member Melanie Hart co-authored a report claiming that state subsidies promoted the rise of Huawei, and she advocated providing countervailing support to the United States and its allies’ suppliers. In addition, Yili Ratner and Elizabeth Rosenberg stated in the report that the United States should establish an "international alliance" with Japan and the Netherlands to develop semiconductors in order to diversify the supply chain.
Although the Biden administration seems to take tough measures against China, some media believe that the future course of the United States is not clear. Bloomberg said that many officials in Biden's team have served in the Obama administration, and these people are committed to establishing close and friendly relations with China. In addition, in 2019,100 former officials and scholars once signed a joint letter in the "Washington Post" stating that the United States is the root cause of the deadlock in Sino-US relations and that the Trump administration's China policy would "backfire". If the Biden administration continues the Trump administration’s China policy, Biden may be attacked again. Therefore, Bloomberg believes that although Biden has formed a tough China policy team, the new US government’s line is not clear on the issue of its attitude towards China.
In fact, my country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Hua Chunying has already responded to the Indo-Pacific issue. Hua Chunying pointed out that the Asia-Pacific region we want to see is a stable, prosperous, and orderly region, a region where consensus and consensus can be reached, and a region capable of managing differences and wisely resolving disputes. We hope that the policies and actions taken by all parties concerned can conform to the trend of the times of peace, development, cooperation and win-win, and will help maintain and promote regional peace, stability and prosperity.
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