President Joe Biden\u2019s administration said on Wednesday it would prioritise winning a competition with China, seeing it as the only global rival to the United States, even as it also works to constrain a \u201cdangerous\u201d Russia.
\nReleasing a national security strategy delayed by the Ukraine war, the White House said the 2020s would be a \u201cdecisive decade for America and the world,\u201d both for reducing conflict and confronting the key shared threat of climate change.
\n\u201cWe will prioritise maintaining an enduring competitive edge over the PRC while constraining a still profoundly dangerous Russia,\u201d the strategy said, referring to the People\u2019s Republic of China.
\n\u201cThe most pressing strategic challenge facing our vision is from powers that layer authoritarian governance with a revisionist foreign policy,\u201d it said.
\nVladimir Putin\u2019s Russia \u201cposes an immediate threat to the free and open international system, recklessly flouting the basic laws of the international order today, as its brutal war of aggression against Ukraine has shown,\u201d the strategy added.
\nChina, \u201cby contrast, is the only competitor with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to advance that objective.\u201d The strategy is largely consistent with interim guidance the administration laid out shortly after taking office in January 2021, even as Biden for most of this year has focused on rallying allies against Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and sending billions of dollars in weapons to Kyiv.
\n\u201cI don\u2019t believe that the war in Ukraine has fundamentally altered Joe Biden\u2019s approach to foreign policy, which long predates his presidency,\u201d said his national security advisor, Jake Sullivan.
\n\u201cBut I do believe that it presents in living color the key elements of our approach \u2014 the emphasis on allies, the importance of strengthening the hand of the democratic world and standing up for our fellow democracies and for democratic values,\u201d he told reporters.
\nThe strategy said the United States was willing to work even with competitors on shared interests, amid the Biden team\u2019s talks with top carbon emitter China on climate change, described as \u201cthe existential challenge of our time.\u201d But the White House emphasised risks from China, warning that its rapid advances in technology aimed to mold the world order in support of \u201cits own authoritarian model.\u201d Despite Beijing\u2019s repeated denials it is seeking hegemony, the strategy said China \u201chas ambitions to create an enhanced sphere of influence in the Indo-Pacific and to become the world\u2019s leading power,\u201d using the favored US term for the broader Asia region.
\nThe White House also tied a rising China to Biden\u2019s vows to prioritise the US middle class, saying Beijing was seeking to make the world dependent on its economy while limiting access to its own billion-plus market.
\nThe strategy called for major investment at home, two months after Biden signed a $52 billion package to improve US capacity for semiconductors, but also said the United States sought to \u201ccoexist peacefully\u201d with China and manage the competition \u201cresponsibly.\u201d \u201cWe are not seeking to have competition tip over into confrontation or a new Cold War and we are not engaging each country as simply a proxy battleground,\u201d Sullivan said.
\nThe strategy release comes as Biden vows a reassessment of relations with one longtime US ally, Saudi Arabia, which moved to slash oil output \u2014 benefitting energy exporter Russia and potentially raising gas prices for American consumers weeks before congressional elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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