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Three Pillars in the Biden Administration’s China Strategy: Allies, Values, and High-Tech



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GU Guoping

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DOI:10.17265/2328-2134/2022.06.004

Beijing International Studies University, Beijing, China

The Biden Administration has inherited its predecessor’s strategic perception about the growing competition among great powers. As a result, its policy toward China has been largely an extension of its predecessor’s, retaining the elements of competition and revising the instruments to outcompete China. The Biden Administration’s China policy has revolved around three pillars—allies, values, and high-tech, which it believes are America’s strengths in its relations with China. Since Biden took office, the United States has spent most of its diplomatic resources consolidating and building smaller security, economic, and tech alliances with membership restricted to democratic allies only, in an attempt to delink from China and consolidate its hegemonic status in the world. This policy carries the pernicious effect of plunging the world into Cold War-like confrontations.

United States, China Policy, allies, values, high-tech

GU Guoping. (2022). Three Pillars in the Biden Administration’s China Strategy: Allies, Values, and High-Tech. International Relations and Diplomacy, Nov.-Dec. 2022, Vol. 10, No. 6, 277-285.