After Biden drafted the composition of the new cabinet, the attitudes of these members towards China were also revealed one by one.
So, will China-US relations experience different changes after Biden takes over as US president?
Will China-U.S. relations ease if Biden comes to Taiwan?
According to US media reports, Biden said in a previous press conference that the US and its allies need to formulate global trade rules to counter China's growing influence. In addition, some of Biden's advisers also revealed that Biden is unlikely to cancel the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on Chinese goods in a short time after taking office.
Obviously, under the influence of the Trump administration, the sentiment of hostility towards China still has a large market in the United States. Therefore, continuing the current policy has become an inevitable choice for Biden.
However, although Biden's new China policy is unlikely to be as extreme as Trump's, at least in terms of suppressing Chinese high-tech companies and reducing reliance on Chinese products, he will continue to follow the Trump administration's approach.
Comparing the strengths of China and the United States in recent years, the two parties in the United States have reached unity on a tough policy toward China. This trend will not change because of Trump's resignation. Therefore, some American scholars have pointed out that, compared with the Trump administration, the Biden administration's China policy will place more emphasis on factors such as values and the alliance system, but will not completely negate the policy of engagement with China.
can predict that in the next few years, China and the United States will form a state of "competition-cooperation".
So, even if Trump uses this last moment to launch a "hit on China", Biden will find a way to fix it when he takes office.
There is currently news that the Biden team has begun to engage with China and is ready to restart the Sino-US cooperative relationship.
It is worth noting that although the owner of the White House is about to be replaced, the most important thing in American diplomacy is self-interest, only the means are different.
In other words, after Biden takes office, Sino-US relations will improve to some extent, but this does not mean that the United States will agree with China's rise from now on.
Compared with Trump's real knife and real gun, Biden is more like a knife hidden in a smile.
This kind of attitude towards China of "coexistence of cooperation and competition" actually uses cooperation to obtain more benefits from China, and then gathers allies to give China a "slash".
Therefore, Biden's "hidden knife" strategy towards China is actually more dangerous than Trump's unilateral protectionism.
72 hours to destroyChinese Navy
The American "Foreign Affairs" magazine recently published an article, the main body of the content is roughly, the US military should have the strength to wipe out the opponent's navy within 72 hours. The author of this article is Michele Flournoy, the favorite to be Secretary of Defense in a new Biden administration.
What kind of ability do people who can say such arrogant words have?
Michelle Flournoy entered the US Department of Defense as early as the Clinton administration. She was the deputy secretary of defense in the Obama administration and one of the representatives of the hawks. Most importantly, she is Biden The person who is very important is Biden's favorite.
Even before he became a minister, he started ranting.
If such a number one person serves as the US Secretary of Defense, then there may be a big question mark about the relaxation of Sino-US relations when Biden takes office. After
exposed such news, NBC also emphasized that Flournoy's nomination is likely to be opposed by the US Democratic Party, because of her tough hawkish style and her close relationship with the military-industrial complex . .
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Bragging or ulterior motives
So is Michel's statement just bragging?
is not that.
As a political figure who has been in American politics for a long time, her words and deeds are meaningful. As mentioned earlier, Michelle has close ties to the U.S. military-industrial complex. In fact, not only Michelle, but even Biden has had a hot fight with many American arms dealers. For example, , Lockheed Martin, , Boeing, General Electric, Northrop Grumman, Thor, etc., Biden can become president this time without their support.
Before Michelle joined the Department of Defense, he had been running for the US arms dealer, advocating that the US should invest huge amounts of money in the development of next-generation weapons, including hypersonic weapons, drones, and cyber warfare weapons , space weapons, etc.
Her remarks not only won the hearts of the arms dealers, but also the US military.
After Trump took office, a series of economic blows have made the situation in the United States unstable, and most of his promises to the US military have not been realized. For example, the US Navy fleet of 355 ships has shrunk to 287 ships. But even so, under the premise of the decline of American shipyards, there is still little hope.
The U.S. Navy is waiting for Biden to get more budget when he takes office.
But the U.S. Air Force and Army are not vegetarians, and it is estimated that there will be another dog-eat-dog show.
It should be noted that the arrogant remarks of "annihilating the Chinese Navy in 72 hours" are not just Flournoy's personal opinion.
As a representative of the American hardliners, when he launched the Iraq War in 2003, he and others from the American hawks invented the so-called "progressive internationalism" theory. The core argument of this theory is that the United States is the boss of a "democratic country". , should maintain the most powerful military force in the world and use it without hesitation to defend U.S. interests globally.
This kind of thinking has been strongly opposed by some politicians in the United States, who believe that this is a kind of naked militarism.
and the man behind this ideological movement is now nominated to be Secretary of Defense.
Now, some American media have called her "America's Angel of Death". If Michelle is successfully elected as US Secretary of Defense, she will lead the United States to a failed road of war and corruption.
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