The Biden administration is slow walking sanctions and playing down China’s intensifying intelligence-gathering to avoid hurting efforts to revive diplomatic talks between the two governments, several sources say.
that Beijing has had an eavesdropping facility in Cuba since 2019 and that China was seeking to expand its intelligence-collection efforts in the region. The administration has declined to elaborate further on China’s surveillance activities in Cuba.
“The United States can no longer afford to keep chasing Chinese leaders for meetings and should not delay competitive actions in order to do so,” said Sen. James Risch of Idaho, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee. For their part, the Chinese are not “pausing” any tough measures directed at the U.S., he said.Blinken is due to arrive in Beijing on Sunday, when the deadline to declassify the COVID-19 documents expires.
When Biden met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bali in November, his first meeting with Xi since he was elected president, the two agreed that Blinken would pay a visit to China this year. But the Chinese balloon flight upended those plans, with Blinken canceling just days before his scheduled departure. Since then, the White House has been working to get the relationship back on track.
“We’ve been expecting outbound investment regulations for over a year now and a number of other measures as it relates to technology or export controls, and we haven’t seen them yet,” said David Sacks, a research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank. “So the question is why?” Emily Benson, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, said that the initial export restrictions last year caused some consternation in private industry. Plans to expand those restrictions have been the subject of internal debate in the administration and protracted discussions with allied governments. The administration also is mindful of Blinken’s coming visit, she said.
Supporters of the administration argue that delaying some actions is a useful tactic to achieve a more important objective — lowering the temperature between two superpowers to avert a potential conflict.
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