The collective Biden insists that it is not seeking war against China yet seems to be intent on setting the conditions for one anyway—one that would erupt under Donald Trump’s second presidency.
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks delivered a speech yesterday at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies the theme of which was “managing” the strategic competition with China. Hicks said that staying focused on top priorities, appreciating that execution or delivery is paramount, recognizing that the U.S. has strong competitive advantages it must leverage and attending to one’s own actions and words are all necessary to prevail in such a competition, reported a DOD News release. Hicks said nobody should seek the devastation that armed conflict with China would bring.
“Instead,” Hicks said, “we want the [the People’s Republic of China] leadership to wake up each day, consider the risks of aggression and think to themselves, ‘Today is not the day'; and for them to think that—today and every day—between now and 2027, in 2035, 2049 and beyond.”
