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‘The challenge of competitive coexistence’: The China Strategy’s first year

China Watcher convened a panel of two China experts and a U.S. lawmaker on Wednesday to discuss the Biden administration’s China strategy as it hits the one-year mark. The full audio of that conversation between Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Jeane Kirkpatrick fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Ali Wyne, senior analyst for Eurasia Group’s Global Macro-Geopolitics, practice is available here.

Below are some highlights of that conversation. Responses have been edited for length and clarity.

The administration implicitly presents the U.S. as embodying and defending the “rules-based international order,” but the US is so deeply polarized that there is today no guarantee of an agreement to avoid a potentially devastating national debt default and some 40 percent of Americans believe the 2020 election was stolen. Chinese state propaganda organs have a field day with these inconsistencies. Does it matter that the U.S. isn’t walking the talk on some of the strategy’s foundational principles?

Stevens: Things have come up in the last dozen or so years that have challenged our democracy and challenged our government structures — shutdowns and hyper partisanship. At the same time, we’re coming off of a legislative term where we passed a bipartisan infrastructure law and the Inflation Reduction Act. How do we avoid situations that chip away at trust in the United States? Folks are still looking for U.S. leadership.

Original source can be found here.