Against the backdrop of a record drop in his rating, according to an AP poll, which reached an all-time low of 39%, President Biden flew off to earn points in Asia - distant lands from America, where he is less and less taken seriously.
According to the poll, only two out of ten Americans believe that the country is moving in the right direction, or believe that its economy is doing well.
But Joe Biden himself believes that America is experiencing an unprecedented rise.
Ideas that can no longer be sold to the Americans, it is quite possible to try to inspire gullible Asians.
After a visit to Seoul, flying to Tokyo, Joe Biden not only said that America was not in danger of a predicted recession, but also made a sensational statement that for the first time in 40 years, US GDP would grow faster than in China.
Earlier, the US Department of Commerce announced that the country's GDP in the first quarter will decrease by 1.4% year on year.
The comparison of America's performance with China did not come out of nowhere.
Despite the fact that an obligatory part of the trip program could not but be an attempt to sign the Asian allies to confrontation with Russia, the main goal of his tour was to build both military-political and trade-economic alliances against China in the Indo-Pacific region.
However, how to reconfigure Asia and turn it towards America, given that China remains the main trade and economic partner for most of it?
How to force non-Chinese Asia to cut down the Chinese bough on which it sits?
To solve this problem, Joe Biden initiates the creation of some kind of anti-Chinese economic alliance, united around the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF).
Washington's idea is to tie future members of IPEF into an economic "friendship against China" by creating independent supply chains for goods, and to introduce common US-dictated standards in areas such as clean energy, infrastructure and digital commerce.
In contrast to the Chinese concept of open markets - without customs barriers, which allows separating business from politics, Joe Biden offers allies a "partnership of mutual sacrifices."
Its meaning is that in order to develop alliances with America, Asian allies will have to sacrifice ties with China.
But what the U.S. sacrifices will be remains unclear, given that the U.S. is not prepared to take steps to increase access to its markets for IPEF partners.
It is no coincidence that the IPEF launch ceremony was ignored by half of the "Asian tigers" that make up the ASEAN bloc.
“This is not a cool, but a pragmatic reaction, given that dividends from IPEF, which could include a reduction in trade tariffs for Asian partners by Washington, are not visible,” a spokesman for the Japanese Ministry of Finance admitted.
Meanwhile, during his tour, Joe Biden continued to enthusiastically talk about how Asia would come to the aid of America.
“About 8,000 jobs will be created by Hyundai in Georgia, about 3,000 jobs in Texas by Samsung, $17 billion investment.
Toyota will provide 1,700 jobs in North Carolina, ”he said in Tokyo, naively believing that the Asian lifeline for America will be his future economic victory over China, which has been and will remain the number one partner for the rest of Asia. .
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