{"id":6393,"date":"2020-11-23T09:59:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T09:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/?p=6393"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:58:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:58:05","slug":"four-experts-give-their-view-on-what-china-can-expect-from-the-biden-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/four-experts-give-their-view-on-what-china-can-expect-from-the-biden-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"4 experts on what China can expect from the Biden administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

After four years of tariffs and a war of words, American policy on China is likely to change under President-Elect Joe Biden. We asked four experts to give CBBC their view<\/h2>\n

Elizabeth Economy is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations<\/h3>\n

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We are on the precipice of a new Cold War with China, partly because of the way the Trump administration has framed China as a strategic competitor and revisionist power. In the US we now see China as an economic, military and even ideological rival. The Trump administration has shifted the US away from 40 years of an \u2018engage but hedge\u2019 approach to China.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, it takes two to tango. Part of the reason why we are on this precipice is down to what has taken place in China under Xi Jinping. Xi has transformed China into a much more repressive and authoritarian country at home and a much more ambitious and expansive country on the global stage.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is now a general belief in the US, too, that there is no such thing as a private Chinese company: Hence the pushback recently against companies such as Huawei<\/a>, TikTok<\/a> and WeChat<\/a>. Chinese plans such as Made in China 2025 and the dual circulation strategy have had a negative impact on sentiment in the US business community.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Trump administration has tried to push back on China\u2019s growing assertiveness. The President himself has focused on trade mainly, and North Korea; the rest of his administration and Congress have been concerned with broader issues, such as China\u2019s actions in Xinjiang, Hong Kong and the South China Sea. The Trump policy overall, though, has been very defensive and reactive, and focused on erecting bulwarks to prevent China from gaining ground. It hasn\u2019t been about asserting a positive message about the US\u2019s role on the global stage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Under Biden, the US will re-engage in virtually every agreement that Trump pulled the US out of, such as the Paris climate accords<\/a> and the JCPOA with Iran. The US may look for ways back into the CPTPP, although there will be a bit more domestic debate about that in the US. The US will be back in the WHO.<\/span><\/p>\n