The beginning of the third term of Xi’s leadership in China; Growing concerns in Washington

According to IRNA’s Sunday report from the Associated Press news agency; Coinciding with Xi’s success in breaking the Communist Party’s two-term leadership tradition, which has been unprecedented since Mao Zedong’s (1949 until his death in 1979) power, the United States has adopted defense strategies and It has updated its national security to show that now China is the most powerful military and economic enemy of America.

Biden, who met Xi for the first time more than 10 years ago when they were vice presidents of their countries, now has Xi as his counterpart, with enhanced power and determination to consolidate China’s superpower position even though There are strong economic and diplomatic obstacles.

According to Jude Blanchet, head of the China Studies Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Although we will not return to Mao’s period, we have definitely entered a new and unpredictable period in terms of the stability and predictability of the political structure of this country.

After nearly two years of strained relations, Biden and Xi are expected to meet on the sidelines of next month’s (November) G20 summit in Indonesia, as both push hard for a competitive edge. who believe that it will determine the leading and outstanding economic and political force of the world in the years leading to the next century.
In addition to the fact that Biden and Xi had face-to-face meetings in each other’s countries in 2011 and 2012, and five phone or video calls since Biden became president of Jamhavi in ​​January 2021, but bilateral relations have become much more complicated than the issues that existed with Official negotiations have been settled.

In his current position, Biden has repeatedly criticized Beijing for human rights abuses against Uyghur citizens and other ethnic minorities, the crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, business activities coupled with force, military provocations against Taiwan and disputes over Russia’s punishment for the Ukraine war. has condemned

The Xi government also criticized the position of the Biden government towards Taiwan (which Beijing hopes to eventually join the territory of the main country) as weakening the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China, and Xi said that Washington wants to weaken the growing influence of Beijing at the same time as trying to It is set to overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy.

White House officials have little hope that Xi’s new five-year term as Communist Party leader will give him more room to engage more fully with America on issues that overlap with US interests.

In a meeting with Defense Department officials on Wednesday, Biden emphasized that Washington does not want a conflict with China, and hours later Chinese state television reported that Xi told members of the National Committee on US-China Relations that Beijing needs to find ways to work with China. Washington to discuss issues of mutual interest.

But this short-lived moment of peace and reconciliation turned into the rhetoric of the officials of the two countries in the following days about the action of the United States in October to expand export controls on the sale of advanced semiconductor chips to China.

According to Wang Hongxia, counselor at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, the United States has overextended its national security concept and restricted China’s development, and the normal trade cooperation has become political and turned into a tool of war.

China’s economic growth slowed by three percent in the first 9 months of this year, putting the country on the path to achieving growth much lower than the official target of 5.5 percent annually. At the same time, the country’s economy is suffering from the stubborn implementation of the zero-covid policy, and is facing a decrease in exports and housing prices, which fell to the lowest level in the last seven years in September.

Also, China’s confrontation with the increasing competition of the United States and the European Union by investing tens of billions of dollars in the field of semiconductors and other technologies, along with other signs, from China’s inability to surpass the GDP of the United States by 2030, according to many forecasts. He is an economic expert.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Admiral Mike Gildey, the top commander of the country’s naval operations, have recently expressed concern about Beijing’s possible decision to accelerate its plan to seize Taiwan. Blinken said that China has made a fundamental decision that the current situation is no longer acceptable.

China has so far refused to criticize Russia’s war in Ukraine, but it has also refused to supply Moscow with weapons. But the conflict has created concerns in Taiwan that may further embolden Beijing to take action to achieve its long-held goal of annexing Taiwan to the mainland.

Bilateral relations became more heated with the visit of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan in August and Biden’s May speech about the US military’s defense of Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack, although the White House later downplayed the importance of these words.

According to Keith Crouch, the former deputy of the US Department of State during the administration of Donald Trump; Now the concern is about the possibility of Xi exploiting Taiwan with unlimited power and ambitions to divert attention from domestic problems, although I hope that he will pay attention to the courage of the citizens of Ukraine and realize that the people of Taiwan are just as much, and maybe even more. are brave