“America will be guided by our values, and we will work in unison with our allies and partners and all who share our interests. We will not leave the future to the whims of those who do not share our vision of ‘a free, open, prosperous world. and sure’.
Since its presentation, the national security strategy (“National security strategy”), a document published by the White House with each new administration, and which Joe Biden’s team made public on Wednesday, aims to be clear. Among America’s strategic priorities: “impersonate China and constrain Russia.”
Russia, “an immediate threat”; China, a more diffuse threat
The “most pressing” issue, according to this document, released by the US executive, is therefore to confront authoritarian regimes. And first in Moscow and Beijing. “Russia presents an immediate threat to a free and just international order by blatantly flouting fundamental international rules,” the White House said.
“China, by contrast, is the only rival that has both the will to change the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological means to pursue this goal,” the Biden administration further notes.
Also in the introduction, Joe Biden signs a statement imbued with his usual optimism: “The United States has everything to win the competition of the 21st century. We emerge stronger from each crisis. And there’s nothing we can’t do.”
“A Decisive Decade”
Speaking to the press, the US president’s top diplomatic adviser, Jake Sullivan, commented: “We will not try to divide the world into rigid blocs. We do not seek to turn competition into confrontation or a new ‘Cold War’.” “And we don’t see each country simply as a field of power confrontation,” he said, referring to the many “proxy wars,” wars at a distance, waged by the Americans and the Soviets between 1945 and 1989.
“I don’t think the war in Ukraine has fundamentally changed Joe Biden’s foreign policy focus, which dates back long before his presidency, and has only been strengthened and amplified since then. ‘He is in charge,’ said national security. adviser.
And Jake Sullivan sums up the message of this American strategy: “we have entered a decisive decade”. With, as “two essential challenges”, “the competition between the great powers to shape the international order of tomorrow”. “The second (…) is that we must face a set of transnational challenges that affect people everywhere, including the United States: climate change, food insecurity, contagious diseases, terrorism, energy transition, inflation,” he said.
Source: BFM TV
