Beijing, China
“Controlling China is an impossible mission,” the said Chinese Ministry of Defense to the United States, while the new Biden administration seeks to unite its Asian allies against Beijing.
Military tensions between the two major world powers increased under former President Donald Trump, who had taken an aggressive stance on things like Taiwan and the South China Sea.
This firmness has the Chinese army has strengthened its deterrence and navy in recent years.
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“The facts have shown that it contains China It’s an impossible mission and it boils down to shooting yourself in the foot, ”said Wu Qian, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Defense.
“The Sino-US Military Relations they are now on a new historic starting point “with the arrival of Joe Biden, he added in an online briefing, calling on Washington to be” non-confrontational and mutual respect. “
In recent years, China it has increasingly pushed for its sovereignty over the vast majority of the islands and reefs in the South China Sea, much to the dismay of other countries such as Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Brunei, who have claims in that area.
Faced with these claims deemed outrageous, the Trump administration sent warships to sail near the islands controlled by Beijing in the name of “freedom of navigation.”
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A hard line that Joe Biden seems to want to follow.
This weekend the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt launched the first Biden-era “freedom of navigation” mission in the South China Sea. At the same time, Washington is strengthening contacts with its Asia-Pacific allies.
Biden he reminded Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Wednesday of the United States’ “unwavering commitment” to protect Japan, including the Senkaku / Diaoyu Islands, an uninhabited archipelago claimed by Beijing in the East China Sea.