Wu ZurongResearch Fellow, China Foundation for Int'l Studies
Competition between the United States and China has become a hot topic since President Joe Biden took office. Unfortunately, competition in its true sense is not what’s going on. What the U.S. has done in the past four months is a disguise put up by the Biden administration to contain China’s rise. Signs of dangerous consequences have been emerging behind the so-called competition.
First, competition is a political and diplomatic slogan of the Biden administration to hold China down in a wide range of areas. According to Biden’s address to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s 2021 graduating class on May 19, the purpose of competition with China is so the U.S. can “game the system” or tip the rules in its favor.