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Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Biden administration’s opportunity to participate China contrasts starkly with its work to remove it.
The United States has accused China of supplying Russia with industrial equipment and technology after first being relieved that Beijing had not originally provided them with weapons.
Washington has urged influential figures in Europe, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, to stand strong in opposing Russia, saying that China wants firm ties with the West as it focuses on resolving domestic economic woes. Kraft just visited Beijing.
After Group of Seven discussions in Capri, Italy on Friday, Blinken said,” If China claims to want good relations with Europe and other countries, it ca n’t on the other hand be fueling what is the biggest threat to European security since the end of the Cold War.”
In the months leading up to an election fight with Donald Trump, who has taken a hard collection with China, Biden has never shied away from other problems.
Biden told union employees he would demand higher tariffs and that China, a relatively small producer of material to the United States, was” cheating” on the item.
Blinken’s accusations that Beijing is “genocide” against the largely Muslim Uyghur majority were renewed on the day of their flight to China.
That argument, which Beijing rejects, was first raised by the Trump presidency.
Yun Sun, a older brother at the Washington- based Stimson Center, said that China’s leaders, willing to focus on their business, were in a delay- and- view mode ahead of the US election.
She said,” The Chinese are aware that the Biden presidency is unlikely to provide any good information on industry because that just does not help the election agenda.”
According to Chinese leaders,” their top focus is maintaining stability” this time.
” Until there is clarity on who the next administration will be, I do n’t think they see a better strategy”, she said.