The US keeps saying it wants to set a “floor” under the relationship with China. Its recent moves against Beijing and new pressure from Congress make achieving that look increasingly unlikely. Know more:
THE US keeps saying it wants to set a “floor” under the relationship with China. Its recent moves against Beijing and new pressure from Congress make achieving that look increasingly unlikely.
“Neither capital has indicated that they are prepared to compromise,” said Drew Thompson, a former US Defense Department official responsible for China and currently a senior fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.ALL of this makes for a tense environment for Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to China next week, the first high-level US encounter there since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
US officials have played down expectations for Blinken’s Beijing visit, emphasizing that it’s mostly symbolic. They’ve described it as solely an effort to show the Biden administration is committed to keeping channels of communication open. The meeting may be more important for China than it is for the US. China—looking to spur flagging economic growth and emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic for good—has a strong interest in making it at least look like relations are getting back on track.
Blinken simply setting foot in China may be enough to calm rising tensions, said Wang Huiyao, the founder of the Center for China and Globalization, a policy research group in Beijing.IN past interactions, US and Chinese diplomats talked past each other, Wang said. “This is very important—the image, the hand-shaking, the meeting taking place in China,” he added.
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