system and other international organizations as privileging Westerns countries, supporting liberal democratic principles, and posing a threat to its monopoly on domestic political power and assertive global ambitions,” said the document, which is marked “SBU,” which means “sensitive but unclassified” and was obtained by The Associated Press. “It views the established rules and norms in the U.N. State Department document prepared earlier this year that focuses on China’s role at the United Nations and other international organizations said Beijing “believes that the People’s Republic of China must dominate and shape international institutions, standards and values in order to advance both its domestic and global agenda.” believes China has ulterior and perhaps nefarious motives.Īn internal U.S. has opened or plans to open at least five new embassies this year.īehind the scenes, the U.S. Washington is racing to repair and shore up its relationships in regions where China has made inroads, particularly Africa and the Indo-Pacific, where the U.S. perspective, China’s rise has challenged its global position. Similarly, the United States should also respect China and not harm its legitimate rights and interests.”īut Washington and Beijing remain deeply suspicious of each other's actions and intentions.įrom the U.S. “China respects the interests of the United States and will not challenge or supplant the United States. “The competition among major countries is not in line with the trend of the times and cannot solve the problems of the United States itself and the challenges facing the world,” he told Blinken. Xi sounded a similar note, but suggested that the rivalry could be overcome. There are many issues on which we profoundly, even vehemently, disagree,” he said. “We have no illusions about the challenges of managing this relationship. While the two countries say they're not enemies intent on harming each other, they're not pretending to be friends.Īfter meeting with Xi on Monday, Blinken acknowledged entrenched differences.
"When it got shot down, he was very embarrassed. And he didn't know about it," Biden said. It was blown off course up through Alaska and then down through the United States. That wasn't supposed to be going where it was. “That's what's a great embarrassment for dictators, when they didn't know what happened. airspace, an incident that prompted Blinken to cancel an earlier trip to China. President Joe Biden, speaking Tuesday at a fundraiser for his 2024 reelection, said Chinese President Xi Jinping had been “embarrassed” by the spy balloon Biden ordered shot down over U.S. Neither government appears convinced of the other's honesty. request to resume military-to-military contacts. The two-day visit to the Chinese capital helped restore top-level ties, but China rebuffed a U.S. “And specifically, we believe that it’s important to establish better lines of communication, open channels of communication, both to address misperceptions, miscalculations and to ensure that that competition doesn’t veer into conflict.” “It was clear coming in that the relationship was at a point of instability, and both sides recognized the need to work to stabilize it,” Blinken said of the reason for his trip. About the most the rivals can hope for these days is to stop things getting much worse.īlinken pointed to difficult days ahead, while China’s foreign ministry warned the relationship was in a downward spiral. Secretary of State Antony Blinken set low goals for his visit to Beijing this week, and he met them.
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