“Regardless of who is elected, it means the same consequence for China,” says the newspaper kiosk owner in Beijing. “Still a difficult time.”
The migrant worker, who works 14 hours a day for China Railway Construction, asks not to be identified as international affairs in China are politically sensitive. But he has a view that arises from the misinformation that emerged from the US election campaign.
“Personally, I prefer Trump because he has business thoughts,” he says. “Biden has Alzheimer’s and will only lead the US into the swamp.”
He can call US stance on China his greatest foreign policy legacy if he loses on November 3rd – and he’s not in favor of turning around. He is sending his State and Defense Ambassadors Mike Pompeo and Mark Esper to the Indo-Pacific this week to sign contracts with partners like India and Indonesia that will last long after election day.
Biden has put China at the forefront of its global challenges in its global challenges, senior policy advisor Jake Sullivan told the Lowy Institute in September. The main difference in the Biden administration’s approach is to minimize the sudden, unilateral White House decisions that sparked the trade and diplomatic retaliation that US allies like Australia have endured. Biden is also expected to resume working with multilateral institutions such as WHO, which Trump is known to have rejected.
“Like-minded democratic allies are at the center of his foreign policy,” said Sullivan. “Allies will have a place of honor.”
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“Xi promised that he would support a multilateral system,” she says. “It’s one way of getting China back on track. One cannot claim to be multilateralist on the one hand and nationalist on the other. ”
Biden has supported free trade throughout his tenure in Congress and has identified some of the $ 362 billion ($ 507 billion) tariffs imposed on China by the Trump administration to protect US industry as “harmful” and ” ruthless “. But they could also be used as a lever to achieve closer cooperation between China on issues such as climate change, which Sullivan says is at the center [Biden’s] Vision of economic recovery “.
A return to the trade negotiating table would welcome Li Wei, an iPhone scalper waiting outside one of the Apple stores in Beijing. The 27-year-old buys brand new models from customers who have gone out of business and resells them at higher prices for a profit.
The expressions of the opportunistic buyer are at the center of the economic decoupling that is making China produce and consume more at home as international tensions mount. The narrative has adapted to an increasingly nationalist Chinese Communist Party, which now sees its “internal circulation” model as a critical part of its mission to accomplish the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
This nationalism also poses a more pressing existential threat that could determine the next US president’s term in office. Taiwan.
Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Tibet. Each of the once semi-autonomous provinces of China is now under the control of the Chinese Communist Party, with individual religious and political freedoms being restricted. Only Taiwan, the breakaway democratic province that split from the Chinese Communist Party after a bloody civil war in the 1940s, remains.
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Natasha Kassam, a research fellow at the Lowy Institute, says Beijing has stepped up its propaganda and military exercises to “deal a psychological blow to the Taiwanese people.”
“China is increasing the pressure to heighten the sense of inevitability about Taiwan’s future,” she says.
This week, the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, known in China as the war on US aggression and aid to Korea in China, was a spectacle of Beijing’s intentions. “You have smashed the myth that the American military is invincible,” President Xi Jinping said in a speech on Friday in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to the best of the military and war veterans.
“If something like this happens, the Chinese people will take up the challenge right away,” he said.
Victor Gao, director of the China National Association of International Studies, told Chinese state media on Friday that Xi’s speech was the strongest confirmation of the war that he had seen from a Chinese leader.
“It brought it back to today’s world. This is a great warning to those countries who believe that they can take to the international stage to crush other countries. China will not give in to such pressure. ”
The U.S. State Department on Thursday approved the sale to Taiwan of $ 1.8 billion worth of weapons systems, including missiles and artillery, designed to prevent a Chinese invasion. China has carried out 49 military aircraft sorties across the center line of the Taiwan Strait this year.
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“The Taiwan scenario remains Beijing’s top priority and the main driver of China’s military modernization,” they said.
The report, which was partially funded by the Taiwan Foreign Ministry, found that if China were to neutralize or occupy Taiwan, Japan would be flanked and its sea routes would be jeopardized.
“A successful Chinese coercion against Taiwan would also destroy trust in US security guarantees and the credibility of the hub-and-spokes network of US alliances in the region that has maintained the Pacific as a barrier against threats to the United States for seven decades himself, “said the center.
Is Taiwan the site of the Thucydides trap? The ancient Greek historian and general argued that the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta was inevitable because the rising power would try to oust the ruling power.
The showdown has been a stereotype in US-China relations for nearly a decade. The next US president may have to grapple with the answer.
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