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Facing down China’s green gambit
By Pei Minxin 裴敏欣
Can US president-elect Joe Biden walk and chew gum at the same time? If walking is managing domestic pressures and chewing gum is pursuing a balanced foreign policy, the answer is far from clear.
The tension between bipartisan calls to contain China and the imperative of cooperating with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) on climate change is a case in point.
Biden plans to marshal a broad alliance of democratically minded Pacific and European countries to check China’s expansionism. In Xi’s view, China might be able to use the promise to cooperate on climate change as a source of leverage with which to thwart Biden’s containment strategy, especially in light of Republican opposition to climate action and hostility toward China.