The United States might indeed have consolidated its power and shored up Asia-Pacific alliances under the Biden administration, but Beijing’s influence will continue to grow, according to observers in China.
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China viewed its strategic rivalry with the US as a long-term battle, and had been able to consolidate its status in key areas of the global economy, they noted.
Delivering his final foreign policy speech as US president on Tuesday, Joe Biden asserted that America was in a “better strategic position in the long-term competition with China” than when he took office in 2021.
“On China’s current course, they will never surpass us,” he said, citing the “latest predictions”.
His administration had stood up against Beijing’s “unfair practices”, Biden said, as he listed diplomatic gains ahead of his departure from the White House next week.
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“We’ve made partnerships stronger and created new partnerships to challenge China’s aggressive behaviour and to rebalance power in the region,” he said.