United States Strategic Approach to The People’s Republic of China

The White House ^ | 20 May 2020 | National Security Council Staff

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Since the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) established diplomatic relations in 1979, United States policy toward the PRC was largely premised on a hope that deepening engagement would spur fundamental economic and political opening in the PRC and lead to its emergence as a constructive and responsible global stakeholder, with a more open society. More than 40 years later, it has become evident that this approach underestimated the will of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to constrain the scope of economic and political reform in China. Over the past two decades, reforms have slowed, stalled, or reversed. The PRC’s rapid economic development and increased engagement with the world did not lead to convergence with the citizen-centric, free and open order as the United States had hoped. The CCP has chosen instead to exploit the free and open rules-based order and attempt to reshape the international system in its favor. Beijing openly acknowledges that it seeks to transform the international order to align with CCP interests and ideology. The CCP’s expanding use of economic, political, and military power to compel acquiescence from nation states harms vital American interests and undermines the sovereignty and dignity of countries and individuals around the world.

To respond to Beijing’s challenge, the Administration has adopted a competitive approach to the PRC, based on a clear-eyed assessment of the CCP’s intentions and actions, a reappraisal of the United States’ many strategic advantages and shortfalls, and a tolerance of greater bilateral friction. Our approach is not premised on determining a particular end state for China. Rather, our goal is to protect United States vital national interests, as articulated in the four pillars of the 2017 National Security Strategy of the United States of America (NSS).

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This policy document was released on Wednesday and outlines how the Trump Administration will deal with Red China going forward. The "Challenges" section lays out the compelling case of the Communist Party's economic misbehavior, promotion of its oligarchical dictatorship as better than representative governance, intellectual property theft, and its challenge to U.S. national security.

The "Approach" and "Implementation" portion outline in broad terms how the Trump Administration is going to make it much harder for China to continue its misbehavior. It is politely phrased, "...improving processes to screen out the small minority of Chinese applicants who attempt to enter the United States under false pretenses or with malign intent." But make no mistake, this is soft soap for an unclassified public policy summary. It codifies the slow repudiation of previous policy toward Red China.

This advocates good public policies and does so in a tight, well written manner. Kudo's to Mr. Trump and the NSC staff who wrote this.

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(continued) We aim to: (1) protect the American people, homeland, and way of life; (2) promote American prosperity; (3) preserve peace through strength; and (4) advance American influence.

Our competitive approach to the PRC has two objectives: first, to improve the resiliency of our institutions, alliances, and partnerships to prevail against the challenges the PRC presents; and second, to compel Beijing to cease or reduce actions harmful to the United States’ vital, national interests and those of our allies and partners. Even as we compete with the PRC, we welcome cooperation where our interests align. Competition need not lead to confrontation or conflict. The United States has a deep and abiding respect for the Chinese people and enjoys longstanding ties to the country. We do not seek to contain China’s development, nor do we wish to disengage from the Chinese people. The United States expects to engage in fair competition with the PRC, whereby both of our nations, businesses, and individuals can enjoy security and prosperity.

Prevailing in strategic competition with the PRC requires cooperative engagement with multiple stakeholders, and the Administration is committed to building partnerships to protect our shared interests and values. Vital partners of this Administration include the Congress, state and local governments, the private sector, civil society, and academia. The Congress has been speaking out through hearings, statements, and reports that shed light on the CCP’s malign behavior. The Congress also provides legal authorities and resources for the United States Government to take the actions to achieve our strategic objectives. The Administration also recognizes the steps allies and partners have taken to develop more clear-eyed and robust approaches toward the PRC, including the European Union’s publication in March 2019 of EU-China: A Strategic Outlook, among others.

The United States is also building cooperative partnerships and developing positive alternatives with foreign allies, partners, and international organizations to support the shared principles of a free and open order. Specific to the Indo-Pacific region, many of these initiatives are described in documents such as the Department of Defense June 2019 Indo-Pacific Strategy Report and the Department of State November 2019 report on A Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Advancing a Shared Vision. The United States is working in concert with mutually aligned visions and approaches such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nation’s Outlook on the Indo-Pacific, Japan’s free and open Indo-Pacific vision, India’s Security and Growth for All in the Region policy, Australia’s Indo-Pacific concept, the Republic of Korea’s New Southern Policy, and Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy.

This report does not attempt to detail the comprehensive range of actions and policy initiatives the Administration is carrying out across the globe as part of our strategic competition. Rather, this report focuses on the implementation of the NSS as it applies most directly to the PRC.

[blueplum]

thanks for posting. This should spin some heads in Beijing

[momincombatboots]

Cthis article is definitely a bfl.. and to share. Thanks for posting.

[RoosterRedux]

bfl

[yldstrk]

Excellent repositioning by the United States.

[Liz]

Then-VP Biden toasts China's XI. "Here’s why I’m toasting this Chink. My view for many years is that a rising China is a positive development, and that the Biden family can become billionaires as long as we Democrats urge force American taxpayers to invest in Beijing’s success. Some anti-globalists see China’s growth as a threat, entertaining visions of a cold-war-style rivalry or great-power confrontation. Other Chinks worry that our aim in the Asia-Pacific is to contain China’s rise,” Biden wrote. “I reject these views. “I remain convinced that a successful China can make our country more prosperous, not less,” he added.

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Yet, underneath all the Biden sucking-up rhetoric about the ennobling virtues of globalism was some very parochial and familial profiteering.

In 2013, Joe and his son Hunter Biden flew on Air Force Two to China. China’s BHR Partners was founded that year and included Hunter Biden as a board member.

The Delaware Board of Trade was incorporated in 2013. Despite its name, the DBOT was not a government agency, but a penny stock startup which received a $3 million loan from New Castle County.

After Joe's wet kiss to XI, the big Chinese partner in the BHR arrangement was Harvest Fund Management which, coincidentally enough, in 2012 was targeting Hollywood with an $800 million investment fund.

That same year, you could find Bruno Wu, who had been working with Harvest, and Chris Dodd, along with Harvey Weinstein, playing roles at the Asian Film Summit in Toronto.

And the money didn’t just go one way.

The Delaware Board of Trade was incorporated in 2013. Despite its name, the DBOT was not a government agency, but a penny stock startup which received a $3 million loan from New Castle County. (Delaware is Joe Biden’s home state which he repped as a US Senator.)

New Castle County had approved the issue of $15 million in revenue bonds to fund the DBOT “stock exchange” by touting the “globally recognized leaders in the financial services industry” running it. DBOT’s founders included people with experience in stock exchanges and financial services, and Dennis Toner, who was described as a “top aide to Vice President Joe Biden.”

Toner, Biden’s deputy chief of staff, is in the news for denying that Tara Reade ever told him anything. Reade’s decision to tell Toner and Ted Kaufman was a pretty poor one. Both are longtime Biden men and considered as close to the boss as family. And they’ve reaped the benefits of that closeness.

After Obama won, Ted Kaufman was temporarily appointed to the Senate. If there was anything odd about appointing a Biden advisor to sit in the Senate, it became odder when Senator Kaufman delivered the opening statement in favor of Toner’s appointment as Post Office Governor, by vouching for his “loyalty” working for Joe Biden.

Tara Reade might as well have taken her complaint to Biden, as to Toner and Kaufman.

The current New Castle County exec has since called DBOT’s founders criminals and threatened to sue after the company was disposed of as a “distressed asset” in exchange for shares of Ideanomics. Ideanomics is a Chinese crypto company trading as a penny stock and the software that served as collateral for the loan has been described as worthless. The chairman of Ideanomics is Wu.

The manager of DBOT-I LLC was listed as John Hynansky. The car dealer is a Biden pal with extensive Ukrainian ties who had lent Biden’s shady brother half a million dollars and had received $20 million in government loans to start a Porsche luxury car dealership in the Ukraine.

Biden’s vaunted foreign policy expertise has consisted of sucking up to broker deals between Biden family members, donors, and foreign interests. These deals haven’t been good for America, but they’ve worked out very well for members of Biden's crooked family, as well as assorted donors, camp followers, and the local boys.

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But Biden's biggest deal was helping broker the Chinese takeover of the American entertainment industry. Xi’s visit to Los Angeles hit on all the right cultural notes. He schmoozed Hollywood bigwigs and their errand boys, like Dodd and Biden, he watched a Lakers game, and cheered Obama’s 100,000 Strong China initiative to have a hundred thousand American students study in the Communist dictatorship.

“I can say with confidence my visit has been a full success,” Xi declared.

In China, culture serves the agenda of the Communist government. Unlike the Russians, who struggled vainly to stem the impact of American culture, their Chinese counterparts decided to control it at the source. Biden was a key figure in negotiating the terms on which the PRC would control Hollywood.

In 1962, the Manchurian Candidate depicted an effort by Communists in China, Russia, and elsewhere to kidnap and brainwash American soldiers. The modern remake replaced the Communists with a corporation and the Chinese doctor with a South African geneticist. China could not be offended. While Biden, Katzenberg, and Xi were partying at the Marriot, human rights protesters were calling for freedom, and being arrested by the henchmen of a one-party Democrat city and state for their trouble.

Even while Biden was falsely claiming that the Hollywood sellout would improve human rights in China, the rise of China was already violating human rights in America. Now, as Chinese drones fly over American cities, police stalk empty streets, social media monopolies monitor every single phone, and Democrat officials dismiss the Bill of Rights while locking up millions of people, our rights are gone.

And Joe Biden is the Manchurian Candidate who long ago sold out the country he now seeks to rule.

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You just wonder how a (gag) president Biden will find time to run the US when he's perpetually sucking up for new deals for his ne'er-do-well son, his greedy family, his ex-staffers, donors, and his real-estate partners.

[Rennes Templar]

As Trump has said, they’re not going to rip us off anymore, ie, he’s nixing the deep state globalist agenda.

[Erik Latranyi]

This is a fantastic restructure of US policy towards China!

It is about damn time!

You would never see this from any of the Republicans who ran in the 2016 primary and you would absolutely never see this policy change from any of the communist Democrats.

[ronnie raygun]

The American people can also help by not buying things made in china

[Mark17]

thanks for posting. This should spin some heads in Beijing

It will certainly spin the heads of most rat 🐀 politicians.

[Captain7seas]

“... a clear-eyed assessment of the CCP’s intentions and actions,”
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Pretty good insight as to China’s “intentions and actions” can be gained by perusing this little speech:

https://jrnyquist.blog/2019/09/11/the-secret-speech-of-general-chi-haotian/

[ealgeone]

We win; they lose. That’s the strategy.

[Caipirabob]

We needed a good “Chuck Fina” policy. This is a good step forward.

[Repent and Believe]

Yes, that speech is a real eye-opener; the blatant adherence to a foundation where God and His sovereign will is not considered a reality to be reckoned with. A dangerous man-centered world view instead, is even now set to challenge those who hold that Jesus rose from the dead and established a heaven-centered kingdom. The millions of dead bodies and skeletons resulting from the likes of Mao and Stalin attest to the ruthless man-centered world that the CCP lives in.

With America’s newfound (let’s say past 50 years) love of murdering unborn innocent defenseless babies and “good” citizens standing by idle, portends a well-deserved disaster for America, however, unless she repent of her similar deeds.

[Wonder Warthog]

As individual Americans, THE most effective direct thing we can do is DON"T BUY CHINESE-MADE PRODUCTS. JUST DON"T.

Preferably, buy American made. If not available from a US mfg, buy from an American ally (TAiwan, South Korea, Japan, Israel, Europe). If none of those is possible, buy from ANYWHERE outside China, or do without.

I am!

[SueRae]

bkmk.Thank you

[Dana1960]

Thanks for posting this for us to see.

This is basically an unsigned, committee generated document that is garbage, if this is the policy that DJT is being handed.

He hasn’t fired nearly enough people yet. :)

[Shady]

My Wife has a superb Physician/Surgeon who is Chinese, Once when we were in his office he lamented about searching all over town for a gift for a Birthday that wasn’t made in China. This was before DJT was President.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thank you, Liz!

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