The United States will not seek to decouple its economy from China, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who unveiled the Biden administration’s China strategy on May 26.
“The United States does not want to sever China’s economy from ours or from the global economy,” Blinken said. “Though Beijing through its rhetoric is pursuing asymmetric decoupling, seeking to make China less dependent on the world and the world more dependent on China.”
“Competition need not lead to conflict. We do not seek it. We will work to avoid it. But we will defend our interests against any threat.”
Blinken outlined the administration’s strategy before the Asia Society at George Washington University, and said that the United States would not interfere with China’s rise to great power status, but would seek to ensure that China and its ruling communist regime adhered to the international rules and norms that helped it achieve superpower status….