Still, Biden’s challenges are formidable.Īmerica’s global reputation has suffered under Trump, and U.S. relations need to be disinfected, and both China and America need to be made winners, not losers." relations aimed at re-engagement and mutual benefit," said Gao Zhikai, a former Chinese diplomat and translator for late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. “China’s expectation for the Biden administration is to re-set China-U.S. In remarks to business leaders last week, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called for the two sides to restart dialog and “go back to the right track." Former vice foreign minister Fu Ying wrote an op-ed calling for “cooperative competition" between the two powers.
rallying other nations to its cause, they have signaled that they’re looking forward to the potential improvement in ties that the change in the Oval Office could bring. over the threat posed by Huawei to next-generation wireless networks, while Western institutions such as the “Five Eyes" spy alliance and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have turned their attention to combating threats from China.Īlthough China’s leaders won’t look favorably upon the U.S. “It’s going to be a major priority for me in the opening weeks of my presidency to try to get us back on the same page with our allies."ĭespite public misgivings with Trump’s strategy toward Beijing, countries such as Britain and France have fallen into line behind the U.S. “The best China strategy, I think, is one which gets every one of our - or at least what used to be our - allies on the same page," he said in the interview. 2 with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. “I’m not going to make any immediate moves, and the same applies to the tariffs," Biden said in an interview published Dec. While Biden and many Democrats say they oppose the tactics Trump used to pressure China, those tools will remain on the table as his successor seeks to negotiate with leaders of the world’s second largest economy.
give the Biden administration a strong hand in negotiations." “The sanctions already in place and the domestic political dynamics in the U.S. “Trump’s broad trade sanctions against China coupled with pushback from other countries against China’s aggressive geopolitical diplomacy will give the Biden administration substantial leverage when it commences bilateral negotiations," said Eswar Prasad, who formerly worked on China issues at the International Monetary Fund. technology, in order “to protect national security," according to a Commerce Department statement.īeijing’s behavior turned some nations that would otherwise have tried to straddle U.S.-China tensions more firmly against President Xi’s government by asserting territorial claims in the South China Sea and in strategic areas like its border with India, as well as using economic coercion against countries like South Korea and Australia. President Trump’s pressure campaign continued last week, as the administration blacklisted more than 60 Chinese companies, limiting their ability to get U.S.
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