The future of the US relationship with Beijing has been a backseat issue in the presidential campaign, but neither result bodes well for Xi Jinping.
No vote commands the attention of world leaders like the US presidential election. When millions of Americans line up to cast their vote on November 5, the Chinese Communist Party elite will be among those closely watching the verdict with the keenest of interest.
“In the US, there is bipartisan consensus on China policy. It defines China as America’s primary strategic competitor.” Friendlier times: Donald Trump and Melania Trump with Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan at Mar-a-Lago in 2017.Trump, by comparison, has repeatedly tapped a vein of working-class resentment toward China. He mentioned China 14 times in his Republican nomination acceptance speech in July, where he blamed the world’s second-largest economy for destroying American auto jobs and revived his “China virus” epithet about the COVID pandemic.
As Trump departed the presidential office in 2021, China imposed sanctions on 28 of his top officials, including outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, accusing them of “prejudice and hatred against China”. “That effort is very well received in China, so that in the end, the result may not be better, but the Chinese perception is quite different”.In a move that surprised Chinese officials hoping for a recalibration after Trump’s departure from office in 2021, Biden maintained and even increased Trump-era tariffs on Chinese imports, including imposing a 100 per cent tariff on electric vehicles.
“We don’t know yet anything that she thinks , but her personality is more soft and we expect more continuity of the Biden policy,” he said.
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