Joe Biden made clear again yesterday, that should he be inaugurated, there will be an escalation of strategic confrontation with the other great nuclear powers, China and Russia, with China most in the crosshairs.
Biden spoke to reporters after he and Kamala Harris had received a briefing from their National Security Review Teams on the transition process. It was a typical Biden press conference; he read a prepared statement and walked out, taking no questions. “The most daunting threats of our time” had been discussed with the State Dept. and AID team, he reported, and summarily listed climate change first, COVID second, and then China, the only “daunting threat” treated at some length.
Biden promised he would forge the needed international coalition against China which the Trump administration could not, due to Trump’s supposedly poor treatment of our “allies.” “As we compete with China and hold China’s government accountable for its abuses on trade, technology, human rights, and other fronts, our position will be much stronger when we build coalitions of like-minded partners and allies to make common cause with us in defense of our shared interests and values,” he declared. “We are almost 25 percent of the global economy on our own, but together with our democratic partners, we more than double our economic leverage.
