The Biden-Blinken-Yellin Kowtow and Presidential Politics

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The recently completed trips of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellin and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to Communist China have drawn a sharp contrast for voters in the 2024 presidential election.  These trips have solidified the Biden doctrine of “strategic competition and derisking” with China, which is as far from the Republican view as Beijing is from Washington.

The only “good news” the Biden-Blinken-Yellin negotiations provide is that of a clear choice for American voters.  If you believe as Biden does that we are simply in a strategic competition with Communist China and that China’s economic and military activities pose no existential threat, then you will agree that the prudent course is negotiations aimed at first stabilizing the relationship and then achieving incremental changes over time.  Of course, in this view, you must also believe the Chinese actually want a mutually beneficial relationship and come in peace.  Believe all that and Biden is clearly your man in 2024.

If, on the other hand, you believe China has no intention of ceasing its economic aggression, that its goal is hegemony in Asia, and that globally it seeks to control the world’s resources and markets, then any one of a number of Republican candidates – with Trump clearly in the lead now – will be America’s choice.  

You decide.