The White House is responding to threats from a senior Chinese communist official who demanded the U.S. stop considering China a geopolitical threat or face consequences.
The Biden administration does not seek conflict with China’s communist regime, according to National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby.
“We seek a strategic competition with China,” Kirby said during a March 7 press call. “We do not seek conflict.”
“There’s nothing about our approach to this most consequential bilateral relationship that should lead anybody to think that we want conflict.”
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, has increasingly taken a more belligerent stance towards the United States since CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping came to power in 2012….