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Why is Biden appeasing China?

Since Joe Biden has taken charge of the U.S. administration, all the eyes of the world are stuck at Biden’s actions on how he tackles China and mends the strained relations between the two nations.
President Biden is seem to be appeasing the country that has emerged as the greatest rival that the United States has ever faced.

1) Growing Might

“China poses the most serious long-term challenge to the international order. But China is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to do it.”

:- Antony Blinken (Secretary of State )

2) Providing Clean chits

Among two of it’s Biggest rivals Biden administration labels only Russia as an adversary, while calling China merely a competitor.

Unlike Donald Trump’s administration ,Biden even shut his eyes on China as origin of Covid-19 virus and detaining more than a million (Uighur) Muslims in internment camps while maintaining a sharp eye on Russia.

3) Failed Anticipation

The paradigm shift formally ended America’s “China fantasy,” which lasted over 45 years, from President Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, aiding China’s rise in the hope that, with progress it would naturally pursue economic and even political liberalization.

4) Russia – China Dual Threat

China and Russia being the Communist nations are showing off their increasingly close relationship
In a joint statement, the two leaders announced a new era in relations that would “know no limits” and be “superior to political and military alliances of the cold war era”.
While hinting towards NATO ,they cited that NATO must “respect the sovereignty, security and interests of other countries and exercise a fair and objective attitude towards the peaceful development of other states”.

5) Biden’s Attempt : Coexist and Cooperate

Blinken’s speech offers more evidence of the administration’s efforts to “coexist and cooperate” with the world’s largest autocracy.
Blinken’s soothing message for Beijing was that “the S. does not seek to block China’s role as a major power,” or hinder its economic growth or “transform” its totalitarian system. We are not looking for conflict or a new Coacld War. To the contrary, we’re determined to avoid both”.
In contrast to the Trump administration’s launch of an ideological offensive against China , Team Biden has repeatedly forsworn any intention to transform that country’s political system in any way.

Biden himself assured Chinese President Xi Jinping in a virtual summit meeting last November that the U.S. will not seek to change China’s political system or direct its alliances against it.
6) Indo-Pacific strategy :Contrasting for Russia and China
With Biden willing to give China a pass on its expansionist policies, the risk is that Xi will make Taiwan his next target after swallowing Hong Kong, redrawing the geopolitical map of the South China Sea and changing the territorial status quo in the Himalayas.
Biden Indo-Pacific strategy document declares that, “Our objective is not to change the PRC [People’s Republic of China] but to shape the strategic environment in which it operates.”
This is Contrasting with the administration’s publicly declaring goal to “see Russia weakened,” including triggering its economic collapse and degrading its military capabilities.

7) Taiwan

While appeasing China thrice in past few months Biden has said that the U.S. will militarily defend Taiwan, making US senior officials walk back from his comment each time
Biden’s deepening of S. involvement in the Ukraine conflict offers Xi an opening to move on Taiwan , while the world expecting normalization between them (China-Taiwan)
While creating international confusion afresh on the issue during the Tokyo visit, Biden played down the possibility of China invading Taiwan, saying, “My expectation is that it will not happen.”

Nothing better illustrates Biden’s efforts to appease China than Taiwan’s exclusion from his the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity.
Taiwan’s exclusion shows how Biden is sending mixed messages about U.S. commitment to that island democracy.
The mixed messages from Washington could lead Xi to believe that Biden lacks the strategic vision and political will to defend Taiwan against a Chinese attack.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, while referring to Taiwan by the demeaning name of “Chinese Taipei” while listing it as one of the founding members of the newly established Cross-Border Privacy Rules Forum.

8) China’s Economy

Unlike Russia , China doesn’t bother US Sanctions because the Chinese economy is 10 times larger than the Russian economy.
Enforcing sanctions against China would cause serious economic disruptions in the West and upend global supply chains.

9) China’s espionage and Hacking

“To kick [the Chinese hackers] out, we must understand the tradecraft and detect them beyond just initial access,” tweeted Rob Joyce, a NSA official.

Despite the FBI director publicly warning that Chinese spying in the U.S. has reached unparalleled levels, Biden has effectively disbanded the “China Initiative,” which was intended to empower the Justice Department to combat Beijing’s vast espionage campaign.

10) US – China Trade

America’s trade deficit with China, meanwhile, continues to swell, jumping over 25 % in 2021 to $396.6 billion
It now makes up nearly 60 % of China’s total global trade surplus (main engine of its economy) besides financing its warfare machine.
Biden may now target the Trump-era trade tariffs on $370 billion worth of Chinese goods, telling reporters in Tokyo that he was considering rolling them back.
Rolling the tariffs back would break Biden’s promise not to unilaterally lift them unless China improved its behavior from its unfair trade practices to its theft of intellectual property.
It also has reinstated exemptions from Trump-era tariffs on 352 products imported from China.

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