Mr. Biden and representatives of 20 other nations are attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. The president’s appearance comes a day after his first meeting in a year with China’s leader, Xi Jinping.
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January 19, 2021
The incoming Biden administration will inherit four major crises the pandemic, climate change, racial injustice, and a fracturing political system. It will also face a U.S.-China relationship that is very different from the one President Obama and President-elect Biden bequeathed to the Trump administration four years ago. Figuring out how to manage this inheritance will be the chief foreign policy challenge of the new administration.
Since 2017, America’s China policy has shifted sharply away from patient multilateralism and integration toward impatient unilateralism and decoupling. Some believe that the incoming Biden administration will have little room for maneuver. This is in part because of Beijing’s intransigence and the many signals China has sent that it intends to double down on domestic repression, state capitalism, and external assertiveness. And it is in part a consequence of the flurry of restrictions and penalties enacted in the waning months of
Thursday, January 21, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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In the last four years, America’s China policy has shifted away from patient multilateralism and integration toward impatient unilateralism and decoupling. Some believe that there is little room for maneuver by the incoming Biden administration to adjust China policy because of Beijing’s intransigence and a flurry of actions adopted in the waning months of the Trump administration, which together lock in strategic rivalry. Others believe there is more opportunity for policy innovation than meets the eye, particularly if US-China relations are viewed through broader adjustments in the administration’s overall domestic and foreign policy frameworks. In this roundtable discussion, a panel of leading experts from the Trustee Chair