U.S. President Joe Biden called China the “most serious competitor” of the United States in his first foreign policy speech. However, Biden’s China policy is one of duality. He sometimes shows favor to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and toughness at other times. Biden is not acting. He’s entangled in the contradictions between political correctness and national security. Is the CCP Autocracy a Cultural Norm? At a CNN televised event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Feb. 16, Biden talked about the phone conversation he had with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Feb. 10. He explained: “If you know anything about Chinese history … the central principle of Xi Jinping is that there must be a united, tightly controlled China. And he uses his rationale for the things he does based on that.” “I am not going to speak out against what he’s doing in Hong Kong, what he’s doing with the …