Joe Biden calls for United States to enter a new superpower struggle SECTIONS Last Updated: Apr 30, 2021, 05:40 PM IST Share Synopsis In fact, he is facing the worst relations in two decades with very different superpower adversaries that are seeking to exploit America’s visible divisions. And so he is making the case that the country must compete with rising power in China, while containing a disrupter in Russia. Reuters United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) transits the Suez Canal, in this picture taken April 2, 2021 Related President Joe Biden justified his broad vision to remake the U.S. economy as the necessary step to survive long-run competition with China, a foot race in which the United States must prove not only that democracies can deliver but that it can continue to out-innovate and outproduce the world’s most successful authoritarian state.