Before the end of 2019, Kurt Campbell and Jake Sullivan wrote a joint article in the prestigious Foreign Affairs journal, in which they demanded that the phase of partnership with China should end irreversibly and prepare for the confrontation phase.

Today, two years after the publication of this study, Campbell became the most important advisor to US President Joe Biden on China, and was appointed director of the Chinese file on the National Security Council headed by Jake Sullivan.

And it appears that Washington is already beginning to implement what President Biden's national security advisors wrote toward China.

Exciting, rapid and varied events this week witnessed only indicate the continued deterioration of relations between Washington and Beijing, despite the fact that the two sides did not acknowledge this.

The week began with a hypothetical summit meeting between the four "Quad" countries (the United States, India, Japan and Australia) that share a growing and common concern about China's threats and its expansionist desires in the Indian and Pacific Oceans regions.

The idea of ​​a "quadripartite security dialogue" stemmed from former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and his desire to create an alliance that would balance relations with the rising power of China.

Australia and India hesitated at first, and warned against the idea of ​​antagonizing China, but the quartet formula has become appropriate to confront the hostile policies of China, after the deterioration of the two countries' relations with them in recent years.

This is the first multilateral meeting in which President Biden has participated since he came to power less than two months ago, something National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said was deliberate, at a time when the four countries generally avoid calling China a direct hub for their activities.

“Biden’s policy toward China begins with allies and partners, not with rushing to Beijing to negotiate terms for the region’s future,” says Evan Weigenbaum, a China expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

It is also expected that the two parties will meet before the end of the week in a bilateral meeting hosted by the state of Alaska, which will bring together the foreign ministers and national security advisors of China and the United States.

Before that, Foreign Minister Anthony Blinken and Defense Secretary General Lloyd Austin will head to South Korea and Japan on their first foreign visit, which reflects the Biden administration's growing interest in the Chinese challenge, and aims to strengthen Washington's alliances towards China.

A strategic guidance document targeting China

After a month and a half in the White House, the Biden administration issued at the beginning of this March the document "Interim Strategic Guidance for the National Security Strategy", which includes the directions of the new administration for national security agencies so that they can work on facing global challenges, after 4 years of the previous president's rule Donald Trump.

China was mentioned 15 times in the document, which did not exceed 20 pages of small size, and did not mention Russia only 5 times.

The document indicated the need for the United States to be prepared for the dangers of China, saying, "We must also be alert to the fact that the distribution of power around the world is changing, which creates new threats."

The document said that China in particular is rapidly becoming more assertive and resolute, and is the only competitor capable of combining economic, diplomatic, military and technological strength and challenging an open and stable international order.

Josh Kurlantzick, an expert on US-China relations at the Council on Foreign Relations, agreed that the Biden administration is moving towards adopting hard-line policies towards China.

Kurlantzick indicated - in an interview with Al Jazeera Net - that despite the unprecedentedly high degree of polarization in the American political system now, there is a fair amount of consensus between Democrats and Republicans on the need to confront China's policies, and he said, "I think there may be some The differences are relatively small between the two, but not as large as some might think. "

Calls to punish China

American commentators are becoming more and more certain that the United States - by unintended folly - enabled what they described as the oppressive communist regime in China to rise and grow, and only turned to the threat after China became the biggest threat to American national security and economic.

The United States should not glorify a country that is committing genocide against its own people and threatening the world.

That's why I am calling for a US boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in China.

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- Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) February 25, 2021

Rick Scott, a Republican senator from Florida, accused politicians in Washington and business groups - such as the American Chamber of Commerce - of protecting Chinese interests and harming US companies, and indicated that they are more concerned with short-term profits than our country's future.

Scott called - in an article he wrote for the Fox News Network - to adopt a four-way strategy to deter China, consisting of the following points:

  • We must continue to follow trade policies that ensure fair trade for the United States.

  • The United States should take decisive and strategic steps to extricate communist China from the American supply chain, while supporting the return of vital industries to American soil, and strengthening policies for buying American manufactured products.

  • Involve the international community and Washington's allies in a campaign of maximum pressure on Communist China, so that it complies with all US and international trade laws.

  • The United States should lead the world and take bold action to highlight the atrocious violations of human rights and the horrific genocide committed by Communist China against its own people.

    • Communist China and Nazi Germany

    Senator Scott joined former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley’s demand that the International Olympic Committee transfer its 2022 Winter Games outside China, unless Beijing addresses its human rights violations.

    Haley demanded - in a tweet - for her country to withdraw from the Winter Olympics to be held in the Chinese capital, Beijing, next year.

    Haley justified the need for the United States to boycott the 2022 Beijing Olympics by China's threats abroad and tyranny at home, and Haley asserts that Communist China is more dangerous today than Nazi Germany was in 1936.