The United States won’t 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, 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,” Blinken said.
“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, who outlined the administration’s strategy to the Asia Society at George Washington University, said that the United States wouldn’t interfere with China’s rise to great power status, but would seek to ensure that China and its ruling communist regime adheres to international rules and norms that helped it achieve superpower status….