Blinken: China is behaving "aggressively"

Anthony Blinken.

Reuters

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has said that an increasingly confident China is behaving "with more aggression outside its borders."

“What we have seen over the past several years is that China is behaving more repressive at home and more aggressive abroad,” Blinken said in an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes.

this is the truth".

In response to a question about what he considered Beijing's long-term goal, Blinken said: "I think over time China believes that it can be, should be, and will be the dominant country in the world."

In response to a question about the possibility of a military confrontation with China, Blinken said: "I think that reaching this point or even moving in this direction is strongly inconsistent with the interests of both China and the United States."

The chief US diplomat stressed that his country's goal is not to contain China, curb it, or keep it under siege, adding that “in order to preserve this rules-based system that China is a challenge to.”

And that any person poses a challenge to this system, we will stand against it and defend this system ».

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