China Responds to US 'Invest, Align and Compete' China Strategy
China issued a response to a recent speech by Secretary of State Antony Blinken announcing the U.S. strategy in its China dealings as being to "invest, align and compete." A spokesperson for China's Foreign Ministry said that the U.S. should…
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not kick-start a new identity based on China as a shared enemy and that, while there will inevitably be competition between the world's two largest economies, the relationship cannot be "defined by competition." The spokesperson then shifted to attack the use of U.S. sanctions, decrying the use of national security as a guise for imposing the sanctions and the restrictions' impact on supply chains. "This is not responsible competition, but rather unscrupulous suppression and containment," the spokesperson said. "If the US insists on defining China-US relations by major power competition and pursuing 'I win you lose' policy objectives, it will only push the two countries to confrontation and conflict and lead the world to division and turmoil."