China State Media Says Biden, Antony Blinken's Views of China 'Identical' to Trump Administration
On 1/26/21 at 2:48 PM EST
Chinese state media and Beijing officials expressed fears Tuesday that the Biden administration may embrace a "virtually identical" confrontational stance toward China as that of President Donald Trump.
China's state-run news outlets cautioned that Biden may be trying to "appear tough" after he recently walked back his campaign criticism of Trump's "disastrous" tariffs. Biden also nominated the new secretary of state who last week told the Senate, "Trump was right in taking a tougher approach to China." U.S.-China relations are dismal after years of a Trump-led trade war, Chinese human rights violations and continued sniping over the coronavirus pandemic's origins. But despite Trump and many Republicans claiming Biden will be cozy with the Chinese Communist Party, Beijing officials say the new U.S. administration may actually harbor the same "raging anti-China sentiment" as the last.