‘Russia and the PRC (People’s Republic of China) pose different challenges.' President Joe Biden called Russia an ‘imminent threat’ that requires ‘constraining’ but identified China as the longer-term threat to the US.
an ‘imminent threat’ that requires ‘constraining’ but identified China as the longer-term threat to the US.
Biden named China ‘America’s most consequential geopolitical challenge’ in his first formal national security strategy, released on Wednesday.states that one of the US’s global priorities is ‘out-competing China and constraining Russia’.President Joe Biden released the national security strategy 21 months into his term
‘Russia poses an immediate threat to the free and open international system, recklessly flouting the basic laws of the international order today, as its brutal war of aggression against Ukraine has shown.’ By contrast, China ‘is the only competitor with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to advance that objective’, it states.
The document was released 21 months into Biden’s term, and less than a month before the midterm elections. Every administration releases a national security strategy periodically.
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