Biden Aides Sowing Confusion With ‘Strategic Ambiguity’ Regarding Free China, a Critic Says, as Communist China Eyes the Solomons
‘We need to respond to this because this is China seeking to increase its influence in the region of the world where Australia has been the security partner of choice since the Second World War,’ Australia’s newly elected prime minister said.
While Secretary of State Blinken sounded conciliatory notes in today’s long-awaited speech detailing America’s policy on Communist China, his Beijing counterpart, Wang Yi, went island-hopping to consolidate his country’s dominance over strategic spots in the Pacific.
“We are not looking for conflict or a new Cold War,” Mr. Blinken said in his speech. “To the contrary, we’re determined to avoid both.” He repeatedly invoked the concepts of “international order” and “universal values” in detailing America’s policy of confronting, and appeasing, Xi Jinping’s China.
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