Xi Jinping’s China is “more aggressive” but the United States still hopes to cooperate on some major issues with the Chinese president, who is about to win a third term, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday.
The head of US diplomacy, in particular, cited the fight against climate change and health problems in a post-pandemic world as issues on which the two countries have an interest in working together.
China has become “more repressive at home”
Under Xi Jinping, China has become “more repressive at home, more aggressive abroad,” Antony Blinken told a lecture at Stanford University in California. “And in many cases, this poses a problem against our own interests and our values.”
But the relationship between the two great powers “retains aspects of cooperation,” he added. “Some of the big problems that we have to try to solve are much more difficult to solve if the United States and China don’t cooperate.”
The White House released its “National Security Strategy” on Wednesday, in which it reaffirms the strategic priorities of US President Joe Biden.
The document shows that Washington intends to impose itself on China in the long term, by reconciling a logic of “competition” with an adversary that has “the will to change the international order”, maintaining a logic of “cooperation” with this country. which remains the largest trading partner of the United States.
Source: BFM TV
