Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), in the delicate throes of a major internal party power competition, has begun throwing everything into a bid to blunt an outright expression of anti-Beijing hostility from the U.S. Biden administration. It is succeeding. This, for Beijing, is the payoff for having supported the collapse of the Trump administration, which was well on its way to isolating the CCP and “calling its bluff” as a rival strategic power to the United States. Instead, the Biden administration has refrained from confirming the reality that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) had already embarked on a strategic war with the United States, merely calling the situation “extreme competition.” U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan and CCP Politburo member Yang Jiechi held a six-hour meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, on Oct. 6, designed—from Beijing’s standpoint—to ensure that the “competition” remained in the realm of ambiguity, rather than deeds, …