Blinken Says Only China Can ‘Seriously Challenge’ Global System

Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the U.S.’s dealings with China the defining test of the century, as he set out a broad agenda that he said would do more to ensure that foreign policy benefits ordinary Americans.

Blinken said the U.S. approach to China will be “competitive when it should be, collaborative when it can be and adversarial when it must be.”

“China is the only country with the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to seriously challenge the stable and open international system,” Blinken said in remarks delivered by video from the State Department.

The speech, Blinken’s first as the top U.S. diplomat, drew a contrast with foreign-policy priorities under former President Donald Trump, citing the importance of fighting climate change and the need to re-engage with the rest of the world after Trump shunned institutions like the United Nations and backed out of multinational commitments.

Referring indirectly to events including the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, he said democracy is under strain globally, including at home, and cast strengthening it as crucial to national security.

“Shoring up our democracy is a foreign policy imperative,” he said. “Otherwise we play right into the hands of adversaries and competitors like Russia and China. There’s no question that our democracy is fragile.”

Blinken described the speech as a preview of how U.S. diplomacy will carry out “interim strategic guidance” on national security and foreign policy that he said President Joe Biden would release later on Wednesday.

Blinken also offered something of a confession that trade deals pursued by past administrations -- including the Obama administration in which he and Biden served -- sometimes failed to benefit American workers. It was a criticism frequently offered by Trump.

Saying the current administration is “building out the hard lessons learned,” Blinken said, “We will fight for every American job and for the rights, protections and interests of all American workers.”

He also vowed that the U.S. would be more wary of entering into overseas wars, a break with past administrations that embroiled U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, and backed military actions that resulted in chaos, such as in Libya.

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[liamemma]

THE RICH STAY RICH BY SPENDING LIKE THE POOR AND INVESTING WITHOUT STOPPING THEN THE POOR STAY POOR BY SPENDING LIKE THE RICH YET NOT INVESTING LIKE THE RICH.

[bobcharles]

He said it all 00:38. 'China is the only country that could serious challenge the international system that makes the rules that "work the way we want it to" .... because it ultimately benefit the American People" What about the rest of the people of the world???? China: We are reasonable people. We come to the table with 20% of the people of the world 5 times that of yours with an economy soon to bigger then yours. We want the rules to benefit our people as much as yours!

[riwjbff]

China has waited these words for 100 years

[hwb]

yeah... the biggest beneficiary of the global system is try to challenge the system. Perfect logic.

[josefinamagallanes]

Nah- not going into war- blinking you on your own-

[edwardtang]

have you seen your new generation of kids? Outcompete anyone...🤣

[gwebocelestron]

Biden's past activities:

In June 2014, Vice President Joe Biden announced the launch of the Caribbean Energy Security Initiative (CESI). The program called for increasing access to financing for Caribbean energy projects that he strongly supported. American taxpayer dollars were dedicated to facilitating deals that matched U.S. government financing with local energy projects in Caribbean countries, including Jamaica. In January 2015, Biden hosted CESI in Washington, D.C., bringing together leaders from across the region to discuss energy issues and in particular, renewable energy. One primary focus of the conference was local and international dealmakers needing help to bring renewable energy projects to the Caribbean region. USAID announced that it would be spending $10 million to boost renewable energy projects in Jamaica over the next five years. After Joe Biden brought together leaders for CESI, brother Frank’s firm Sun Fund Americas announced that it was “engaged in projects and is in negotiations with governments of other countries in the [Caribbean] region for both its Solar and Waste to Energy development services. As if to push the idea along, the Obama administration’s OPIC provided a $47.5 million loan to support the construction of a 20-megawatt solar facility in Clarendon, Jamaica. When the deal was announced, U.S. ambassador to Jamaica Luis G. Moreno noted that the project “wouldn’t be possible without OPIC financing. Frank Biden’s Sun Fund Americas later announced that it had signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) to build a 20-megawatt solar facility in Jamaica.

Hunter Biden was involved in two billion-dollar deals with Chinese government–connected firms in a twenty-month period while his dad was vice president of the United States. Hunter was apparently eager to strike other deals with the Chinese—business implicitly leveraged on who his father was. Consider the case of Patrick Ho, who was arrested in late 2017 by federal agents in New York for money laundering and violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Ho was an assistant to Chinese oil tycoon Ye Jianming, who ran the energy company CEFC. The company has strong ties to the Chinese military. Ho was also the secretary-general of the China Energy Fund Committee, which is a Chinese government-directed entity. CEFC officials had met multiple times with Hunter Biden beginning back in 2015. In May 2017, Hunter met with Ho in Miami, where they reportedly discussed joint energy and infrastructure deals in the United States.

Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca Partners finalized a deal with the Chinese government worth a whopping $1 billion. The deal was later expanded to $1.5 billion. It is important to note that this deal was with the Chinese government—not with a Chinese company, which means that the Chinese government and the son of the vice president were now business partners. They created was a joint venture called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). The name reflected who was involved: the “RS” was a reference to Rosemont Seneca; the “T” was the Thornton Group, a small U.S. investment firm that did business in China. It was a very unusual arrangement: the most powerful financial institution in China, the Bank of China, was setting up a joint venture with Rosemont Seneca Partners. When the Chinese government’s BHR was established, Hunter Biden was given a slot on the board of directors. BHR, with Hunter Biden on the board of directors, engaged in a series of financial deals that served the strategic interests of Beijing. In one of their first deals, the firm took an ownership stake in China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN), a nuclear energy company. The company was charged in 2016 with espionage against the United States. BHR was the first of a series of business relationships that Hunter Biden established with the Chinese government or Chinese government–connected entities.

Just about a year after the massive deal with the Chinese government’s Bohai Harvest, another Hunter Biden firm, Rosemont Realty, struck a pact with another Chinese government–linked firm called Gemini Investments. This deal involved a multibillion-dollar investment in Rosemont. Gemini Investments’ director and honorary chairman is Li Ming. His corporate and political ties in Beijing go to the highest levels of the Communist Party. By December 2014, Gemini Investments inked the new partnership with Rosemont Realty, under which they would acquire an interest in the company and its underlying properties. Eight months later, the newly christened Gemini-Rosemont announced its plans for $3 billion worth of new acquisitions.

Consider the case of something called mbloom, a joint venture that Hunter Biden set up in Hawaii. Mbloom was a “public-private partnership” in which Hunter’s firm invested $5 million and the other half came from the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation (HSDC). But where did HSDC get its money for mbloom? It came from a program back in Washington, D.C., called the Treasury Department State Small Business Credit Initiative. Three million dollars of the HSDC money came from the program, which was run by a longtime Biden aide named Don Graves. It is hard to find someone tighter in the Biden orbit than Graves. Over the course of his career, he has served as counselor to Vice President Biden, his domestic and economic policy director, and as his traveling chief of staff. After Joe Biden left the White House, he appointed Graves to the policy advisory board of the Biden Institute.

Hunter was also deeply involved with a troubling entity called Burnham Financial Group. Two Chinese companies also became involved with Burnham. Kirin Global Enterprise Limited, a mysterious investment vehicle run by Xiangyao (or Yaojun) “Larry” Liu and Guo Jianfeng, was one that invested in Biden’s company. Another firm, Harvest Global Investors, a Chinese investment firm linked to the government in Beijing. Burnham Asset Management became the center of a federal investigation involving a $60 million fraud scheme against one of the poorest Indian tribes in America, the Oglala Sioux.


After reading this do you understand the Biden family? Do you think that Biden destroying the US energy sector and our energy independence has anything to do with him setting up deals through his family members' connections to Chinese energy companies to replace our production of our own energy and that there's a reason Beijing Biden is giving China access to our energy grid? He's setting up deals through which his family will profit at the expense of US energy workers and us through our tax dollars going towards these Biden family deals with China. 


“Come on, man, ” Biden said. “They’re not bad folks, folks, but guess what. They’re not competition for us.”

[jimwong]

Deng initiated China's Opening Up and Reform in 1978, gave up comintern, restored all tradition and culture (so that my family can worship Buddha at home), kept a low profile, focused on economy development and improvement of people's living, set up Chinese characteristic socialism - a kind of hybrid of capitalism and socialism which is good for China since heavily populated!
Chinese are forward looking and still already solved all border issues using "Give and Take" strategy with neighbors excepts India. Allied with China benefit all countries people!
China wants to modernize first, the democratize, India just reverse the path. Which one is better we will follow which one! May see it in the middle of this century!

[daughterofgod]

Jesus Christ loves you and died on the cross for you. Give your life to him and follow him. Repent and accept him as your Lord and savior. Talk to him and cry out to him. He loves us so much more than we could ever comprehend. God bless you all.🙏❤

[daxtynminn]

I’m glad that Washington is waking up to the China threat and is taking action. Long overdue.