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Towards stabilisation of U.S.-China ties

The relationship will retain a strong competitive tenor but that should not prevent the U.S. and China from making it pragmatic

In this time of war, the quiet U.S.-China dialogue is a significant factor for peace. 

From a situation where they were virtually not talking to each other,

 the two global powers appear to have reached a point where a presidential summit may be on the cards at the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco in November.

दोनों के बीच बातचीत हो जाती है तो क्या असर पड़ेगा

1 At the immediate level, Washington’s ability to talk to China could promote restraint शांत या नियंत्रित व्‍यवहार in West Asia.

2  China has  influence on Iran, which virtually controls the Hezbollah in Lebanon.

3  The Hezbollah’s entry into the war in Gaza could really complicate the situation in the region.

Last week, Wang Yi visited the U.S.

 the first by a Chinese foreign minister since the pandemic, and met with President Joe Biden and senior U.S. officials. 

He is reported to have told the U.S. strategic community that “the road to San Francisco “will not be a smooth one.”

 Mr. Wang’s visit came in the wake of visits by the U.S. Secretaries of State, Treasury, and Commerce to China in the last few months. 

The American position

In the latest issue of Foreign Affairs

1 U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan wrote,

 “High level and repeated interaction is crucial to clear up 

🌺misperception, 

🌺avoid miscommunication,

🌺 send unambiguous signals,

 🌺and arrest downward spirals that could erupt into a major crisis.”

 Recall that Mr. Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Bali 

at the sidelines of the G-20 summit last year and discussed Taiwan, their competition, and strategic communications. 

But the relationship went bad with spy balloon incident earlier this year.

The U.S. is currently speaking from a position of strength

1 Its economy is doing well while that of China is stumbling.

2  In foreign policy, the Biden administration has been able to revive America’s traditional alliance in Europe on account of the Ukraine war, 

and strengthen the hub-and-spoke alliances into a larger matrix covering the Indo-Pacific. 

This involves strengthened ties with India, upgraded ties with Australia, Vietnam and Japan, and revived ties with the Philippines.

3 .Us maintains the Trump-era tariffs, and initiated a policy of export restrictions designed to hobble the growth of the Chinese high-tech industry.

4 Its National Security Strategy of last October said that China was “the only competitor with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to advance the objective.”

ट्रेड रिलेशंस दोनों के बीच में कैसा चल रहा

The U.S. continues to tighten its export controls to Beijing and is talking tough on the China-Philippines stand-off at the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea.

 It is also tightening controls on its outward investment to China and restricting Chinese investments in the U.S.

 Its Treasury Secretary Janet येलेंस visiting 

who visited Beijing earlier this year. It was a call for constructive engagement with China involving three points — 

🌺national security of the U.S. and its allies, 

🌺an economic relationship based on “fair competition”, 

🌺and cooperation on urgent global challenges.

 Ms. Yellen rejected the idea that the U.S. wanted to decouple its economy from China, noting that the U.S. trades more with China than with other countries except its neighbours Canada and Mexico.

China’s stance

China believes that the U.S. remains a formidable military power but is in inevitable decline. 

But it would like to maintain the façade of cooperation and peaceful co-existence rather than deal with the competitive and confrontational posture that the U.S. has adopted.

 China has long sought U.S. acceptance of its economic and political system, which means the supremacy of the Chinese Communist Party. 

Militarily and politically, China has sought to establish its regional dominance in the western Pacific.

But its neighbours such as Japan, the Philippines, and Vietnam, which are backed by the U.S., contest this. 

Taiwan occupies a difficult position in this situation. Undergriding this is the realpolitik of U.S. global politics: preventing the rise of a hegemonic power on either end of Eurasia could well be a prelude /start to the undermining of its own global hegemony.

जलवायु परिवर्तन या पश्चिम एशिया जैसे संकटों जैसे वैश्विक मुद्दों से निपटने के लिए अमेरिका-चीन संबंध महत्वपूर्ण हैं।  लेकिन अशांति का माहौल प्रभावी सहयोग में बाधा डाल रहा है।

 उम्मीद है कि बिडेन-शी शिखर सम्मेलन चीन-अमेरिका संबंधों में सुधार की प्रक्रिया शुरू कर सकता है।  संबंधों और अपने द्विपक्षीय संबंधों को एक समान स्तर पर लाना।  रिश्ते में एक मजबूत प्रतिस्पर्धी स्वरूप बरकरार रहेगा लेकिन इसे अमेरिका और चीन को इसे व्यावहारिक बनाने से नहीं रोकना चाहिए.

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