In his statements, the head of American diplomacy, Anthony Blinken, mainly cited the fight against climate change and public health issues, as examples of the topics on which the two great powers should work together.
President Xi Jinping’s China is “more aggressive,” but the U.S. administration hopes it can work with it on some major issues as the head of state prepares to secure a third consecutive term, the U.S. secretary of state said Monday. Anthony Blinken.
The head of American diplomacy mainly cited the fight against climate change and public health issues in the world after the new coronavirus pandemic as examples of the issues on which the two major powers should work together.
Under Mr. Xi, China has become “more repressive at home, more aggressive abroad,” Mr. Blinken said during an event at Stanford University (California). “And in many cases, that raises a problem in terms of our interests and our values.”
However, the relationship between the world’s two largest economies “maintains dimensions of cooperation”, he continued. “Some of the big problems that we have to try to solve will be much harder to solve if the US and China don’t work together,” he said, referring to climate, global health, the fight against drug trafficking.
“Even if (Chinese leaders) don’t want (to cooperate), there is a huge demand from the rest of the world” for it, the US diplomatic chief insisted. The other countries “expect us to find ways to move forward with these problems together”, as they “affect us”.
The White House last week unveiled the “national security strategy,” which reaffirms President Joe Biden’s strategic priorities.
The text shows that Washington means to impose itself on China in the long term, reconciling the logic of “competition” with a competitor that has “the will to change the international order” with the logic of “cooperation” with the state that remains the largest trading partner of the USA.
The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China began on Sunday, and it is practically expected that Xi Jinping’s third presidential term will be ratified.
Beijing categorically opposes “all forms of hegemony and power politics, the cold war mentality, meddling in the internal affairs of other countries and the practice of ‘two measures and two stations’,” the Chinese leader stressed in the opening speech the 20th Congress, referring, implicitly but not explicitly, to the USA.
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