Biden to continue China containment Indo-Pacific strategy: analyst
12/14/2020 06:19 PM
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Taipei, Dec. 14 (CNA) The incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is likely to continue the Indo-Pacific strategy of the Donald Trump administration, with only minor adjustments, to contain Chinese expansion, a Taiwanese analyst said at a media forum on Monday. Whether Trump s Indo-Pacific Strategy will be renamed or not, its essence will not change. It will continue to focus on China, said Lin Cheng-yi (林正義), a research fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies at Taiwan s Academia Sinica.
Biden will maintain the Trump administration s view of China as a strategic competitor as his incoming Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan have both expressed the same position, Lin added.
Biden softer on China: academic
‘COMPETITOR’: US president-elect Joe Biden might center his foreign policy on cooperation with Indo-Pacific allies to stem the expansion of Chinese influence
By Su Yung-yao and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
US president-elect Joe Biden is likely to pursue a softer policy on China, focusing on cybersecurity and information technology challenges, as opposed to the “hard containment” direction favored by US President Donald Trump, an academic said yesterday.
At a seminar hosted by the Prospect Foundation in Taipei, Academia Sinica Institute of European and American Studies research fellow Lin Cheng-yi (林正義) and others shared their predictions for US policy in the Indo-Pacific region under the Biden administration.