20 Nov 2020
One of the chief executives of Apple, Mr. #Steve_Jobs -peace and mercy upon his soul- said it one day: "If you don't like your competitors, learn how to love them, praise them and benefit from them criticize your enemies in a classy and frank manner, and honestly" Biden promised that his administration in its first days will return the #US 🇺🇸 to all international organizations, most notably the World Health Organization (WHO), UNRWA and the Paris Climate Agreement According to Biden and his deputy, Kamala Harris, the administration of US President Donald J. Trump has allowed China to make great steps to control international organizations Although Biden believes that the enemy and the number one competitor to Washington is #Russia 🇷🇺 and not China it's true that Trump's strategy was relatively ineffective in restraining the reins of the Chinese dragon's eruption, it shed light on Washington's most important competitor internationally Harris’s words contradict the vision of her president, who doesn't see China as an obstacle!!!,
Biden, who is 78 years old, who will be the oldest president in the history of the US, doesn't want to end his long political career with an international crisis that one of the most important political writers in Uncle Sam's country #Henry_Kissinger warned of Beijing is trying to convince the incoming Biden administration that the relationship between the United States and China can be smooth and positive, but only if Washington gets rid of the Trump administration's policies, ignores China's worst behavior, and pretends that everything is fine This scheme is based on convincing President-elect Joe Biden that preserving harmony in US-China relations is more important than anything else, a flawed and dangerous hypothesis,
In its final days, the Trump administration was implementing a series of measures to repel Chinese economic aggression, espionage and human rights violations At the same time, calls for the Biden administration to reverse course are not only coming from China, but also from advocates of smooth relations such as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who warned this week that the two powers are heading toward a conflict similar to World War I But the Chinese government's offer to improve relations comes at an unreasonable cost. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman suggested last July that Washington and Beijing compile lists of various bilateral issues and then remove (difficult issues) from the table while setting aside differences to reduce their impact on China and the United States in general and not damaging Washington's relations with Beijing,
In the meantime, Beijing wants to show its own democracy that is far from democracy, but what will happen if its conditions are rejected?! A Chinese official presented to the Australian (Sydney Morning Herald) newspaper a list of conditions it expects in exchange for lifting severe penalties for agricultural and mineral export industries on #Australia 🇦🇺 According to the list, Australia should stop exposing the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on its soil and remain silent about the issues of #Taiwan 🇹🇼 and #HongKong 🇭🇰 and the Uyghurs, open its doors to Chinese technology companies and stop calling for an independent investigation into the origins of #coronavirus #COVID19 🦠 pandemic The Chinese official also said that if Australia does everything that China demands, it will be (favorable to a better nature), adding in threatening language: "If Australia makes China the enemy, China will be the enemy." Beijing's outright economic blackmail of Australia is a signal to the Biden administration that the price for smooth relations is submission but the goal of any administration should be to defend and promote American interests and values and not sacrifice them for the sake of false confidence in superficial friendly relations,
There is concern in Asia about whether the Biden administration understands this dynamic Last August, retired Singaporean chief diplomat, #Belhari_Kossikan, wrote that #Susan_Rice, who is rumored to be a candidate for the position of Foreign Minister (she's not prepared to compete) she was among those who believed that the United States should reduce its focus on competition for China's climate cooperation, and this is a misunderstanding of the nature of international relations,
In 2013, when Rice -the national security advisor to former US President Barack Obama- gave a speech in which she pledged to activate a new model for major power relations and supported the Chinese President Xi Jinping's vision of a relationship based on cooperation and non-interference in each other's affairs and in 2016 Rice ordered Pentagon officials to stop using the word "competitor" when talking about China and to search for a less exciting term Obama and Rice wanted to work with China on issues like climate change, but they did so at the expense of treating Beijing with gloves Kurt Campbell, the senior State Department official in Asian affairs in the Obama administration, indicated in a speech last month that Beijing's willingness to cooperate on climate change (not a service to the United States or the world) but a goal it seeks because of its own interests, something the United States should be clear about it,
There are many ways in which Biden can improve Trump's approach to China. The new president must make the United States' strategy more pluralistic, more organized, and coherent, and his administration should benefit from Trump's wholesale demolition of past assumptions about relations with China What has changed in the Trump era is that stability in the relationship is no longer seen as the goal, as #Eric_Syers, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said: “This doesn't mean that we should seek instability, but we must realize that instability will be part of Relationship" Biden's team will be a fool to play in Beijing's plans. If Biden intends to mend alliances, he must realize that allies like Australia want support to resist China's bullying and do not want Washington to roll,
Groups of interest are preparing to pressure Biden to surrender to China’s demands, but doing so would be against the majority of Americans in both parties and would break Biden’s electoral promises to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party the Biden team must make it clear early on that it will not accept increased external aggression and internal repression by China in exchange for appeasement. Returning to this pattern would allow serious problems to exacerbate and increase the long-term risks of the kind of dangerous conflict that both countries wish to avoid.