President JoeBiden’s interest in limited cooperation with China could be overtaken by domestic politics and his own ideological distaste for the communist regime, according to former officials and analysts.
“The last thing he’s going to do, heading into elections next year, is allow the Republicans to claim he’s soft on China,” a former senior intelligence official told the Washington Examiner."The last thing they ask themselves before he makes a decision on China is how will this play domestically? What will the cable news networks and the media do with it? And if it’s not a good answer, he won’t do it.
"Pay attention to the number of times China is mentioned in political campaign commercials when it comes election time; that is reflective of an American public that cares about China," Sen. Chris Murphy , who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, said Wednesday during a Foreign Policy magazine event."Now, it may be more interested in the role that China has played in this new global economic order in which we don't feel like Americans have been treated very well.
“There is nothing inconsistent with competing vigorously and talking with [China] on a range of issues,” the White House National Security Council’s lead official for the Indo-Pacific, Kurt Campbell, told reporters as Blinken prepared to depart for Beijing last week. “We can’t let the disagreements that might divide us stand in the way of moving forward on the global priorities that require us all to work together.
Biden brushed off the idea that his jab at Xi “had any real consequence,” but it tends to reinforce Chinese Communist claims that the United States is presenting a “fake illusion” of a desire for dialogue with China. “Closer to the election season, it is clear that the Biden administration is appeasing domestic voters and, to them, the current and immediate threat is China and its growing global influence,” Tsinghua University research fellow Zoon Ahmed Khan told the South China Morning Post.
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