US President Joe Biden couldn’t have picked more anti-China officials than US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. The two were at the head of former President Obama’s so-called Pivot to Asia, a thinly disguised program to contain the rise of China as a superpower. Blinken last January even told media that China posed the “most significant challenge to the US and any other country in Asia.” Biden himself has said in several speeches that assembling a united front against China would be a top priority for his administration. It was the new administration’s “re-pivot” to Asia.

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