China’s ‘Document No. 9’ Outlines Beijing’s Hostility to the West; Will the Biden Administration See It for What It Is?

While Western leaders triumphantly proclaimed an end to the age of ideology, China’s communists were honing their ability to extend and exploit ideas ‘with Chinese characteristics.’

AP/ Carolyn Kaster
The secretary of state, Antony Blinken, outlines the administration's policy toward China May 26, 2022. AP/ Carolyn Kaster

“Beijing — despite its rhetoric — is pursuing asymmetric decoupling, seeking to make China less dependent on the world, and the world more dependent on China,” the American secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said on Thursday. In a speech outlining President Biden’s China policy, Mr. Blinken observed that Communist China is the only country with the “intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the … power to do it.” 

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