A new administration, but with some old acquaintances. China is very familiar with some of the personalities who, in one direction or another, will influence Donald Trump’s policy towards it. From Sunday January 19, the Chinese vice-president, Han Zheng, who came to Washington for the inauguration of the American president, spoke with Elon Musk, the billionaire who, by selling 36.7% of his Teslas on the Chinese market , embodies the exposure of American companies to this country. Read also | Article reserved for our Tesla subscribers: “Elon Musk’s trip to Beijing” Read later But Beijing is also aware of the ideas of the new Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who has been banned from entering Chinese territory since he denounced, in 2020, the “genocide campaign” against the Uighurs and introduced several laws against the repression in Xinjiang and for the boycott of products resulting from it. During the Senate hearings to be confirmed as head of diplomacy, the Florida senator repeated the positions that make him a hawk on the Chinese issue. “We welcomed the Chinese Communist Party [PCC] in the world order, and they have taken advantage of all its advantages but ignored all its obligations and responsibilities, he said on January 15. Instead, they rose to become the world’s superpower by lying, cheating, hacking and pillaging, at our expense. » Monumental strategic error The sweats of the new American Secretary of State on the rise of Beijing are an acute form of the debate which agitates Washington on the course of action to take in the face of the rise of China. It can be summed up as follows: by opening up to China, has America made short work of its worst challenger? The trial in the United States of the policy of engagement (“outstretched hand”) is accentuated as Beijing gains military resources and strengthens its commercial and diplomatic ties in the world, in competition with the United States. Even if it means forgetting the profits of American firms on this market and the conflicts which did not take place due to the relationship of interdependence. You have 66.41% of this article left to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
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Author : News7
Publish date : 2025-01-22 12:38:48
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