The Biden Doctrine?

The president labors under the notion that the United States is the party upon whom it’s incumbent to de-escalate tensions between America and Communist China.

AP/Alex Brandon
Presidents Xi and Biden on the sidelines of the G20 summit meeting, November 14, 2022, at Bali, Indonesia. AP/Alex Brandon

The arrival Sunday at Beijing of Secretary of State Blinken will offer a moment to mark the inscrutability of the Biden Doctrine. The president is the only American leader we can think of — and we’ve had some doozies — who labors under the notion that the United States is the party upon whom it’s incumbent to de-escalate tensions between America and Communist China. How he reached that conclusion is a secret between him and his business partners.

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