United States secretary of state Antony Blinken on Saturday insisted that the goal of the present Biden-Harris administration isn't to carry back China but to support a "free and open system" supported standards established after war II. Blinken involved allied nations of the us to band in solidarity against challenges posed by an increasingly assertive China. "And i would like to be clear on this, our goal isn't to carry China back," he said, adding, "It isn't to determine a policy against China. it's to support a free and open system supported the principles and standards that France and therefore the us established after WWII, and which have served us well."
The statements are available the backdrop of recent criticisms at the G7 and NATO summits against Beijing's ambitious political gambits. While the participating countries took out joint statements criticising the Chinese government over its recent controversial exploits in human rights, trade ties, and coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic cooperation, there are marked differences within the trans-Atlantic partnership regarding how exactly to travel about it.
The US prefers a hardline approach, calling out the Communist Party of China's lies at the outset, and it seemingly wants to require its allies down along this road also . In his interviews, president Joe Biden has described the US-China rivalry with an almost fantastic edge, framing it as a conflict of interest between democratic forces and autocratic regimes. On the opposite hand, its allies in Europe, particularly Germany, where chancellor Angela Merkel was instrumental in penning down an EU-China investment agreement deal, won't be too keen on openly antagonising China.
The US administration realises that there's a disparity in approach, and has hence involved greater convergence among its allies. Even so, the gains made within the G7 summit seem to possess bolstered US confidence in its allies, a minimum of for now. In an interview with the office of the spokesperson in Paris, Antony Blinken said, "What I've seen, especially these previous couple of weeks, may be a convergence with reference to the approach to China and that i think we see it an equivalent way."
When asked about the reported difference between the US and its allies over China, Blinken simply said that the relationships that these countries share are too "complicated" to be effectively summed up during a single word or sentence.
