Blinken’s long-awaited China policy address 'unexciting'

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a speech on the country's China strategy on Thursday, describing China as the "most serious long-term challenge to the international order" but stressed the US does not want a new Cold War. 

Experts said that the seemingly "soft" rhetoric cannot cover the truth that the US top envoy is using an "artificial argument" to cast China as a particularly "tough, big guy" that people cannot be messed with while the US is "a little poor."

That once again proves US officials' hypocrisy as the country has been using fine words but never stops doing the bad things, experts said. 

Even as the war rages in Ukraine, Blinken said that the US remains focused on China as the country has "become more repressive at home and more aggressive abroad."

Blinken made it clear that the US will shape the environment around Beijing with the approach being summed up in three words: invest in US competitiveness, align with allies and partners, and compete with China.  


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