Commentary The Biden Administration seems to be firmly straddling the fence when it comes to China. On one hand, Secretary of State Blinken seemed to re-affirm former President Trump’s firm stance against the Chinese Communist Party and even asserted that the CCP is conducting genocide in Xinjiang. Having personally been part of national security reviews between administration’s during my government service, I know it is not uncommon for subsequent Administrations to continue or even double down on continuing policy despite public hyperbolic political criticisms of the same policies. In that light, Secretary Blinken’s comments were re-assuring statements of intellectual honesty versus ideological automatism. But then President Biden fumbled what should have been a softball question and has createsd significant confusion by attributing China’s Uyghur genocide to different cultural norms. Waffling like this by President Biden undermines his own staff and sends potentially ambiguous and even dangerous signals to an adventurist, …