US-China ties need principled 'guardrails'
The US-China relationship, the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world, stands at a delicate juncture. They must begin erecting the “guardrails” that President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping had envisaged at their meeting in Bali, Indonesia, on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in November 2022. If the Biden administration wishes to restart the defense ministers’ dialogue, it must first drop Chinese State Councilor and Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu from its “specially designated nationals and blocked persons” list. For his part, Biden tendered “five noes” — the US does not seek a new Cold War; does not seek to change China’s system; the revitalization of its alliances is not directed at China; does not support the independence of the Chinese island of Taiwan; and does not seek conflict with China. And as improbable as this might seem in the post-Donald Trump “new normal” in Sino-US ties, a new window of opportunity could yet open up if Biden — a statesman steeped in the politics of US-China normalization — is re-elected to office.
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