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-Chin