Joe Biden has
informed US media that after being sworn into office, he will keep in place
the tariffs incumbent President Donald Trump imposed on China, as per an AFP report.

Spurts of
resentment and clamping down have redefined the relationship between the world’s
two biggest economic powers throughout the Trump Presidency, with the incumbent
President slapping several billions of dollars of import fee on Chinese goods.

The current President-elect
Biden, meanwhile, has maintained an attentive posture towards China and has criticised
Beijing’s human rights violations in the past.

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“I’m not going to
make any immediate moves, and the same applies to the tariffs,” AFP quoted
Biden as saying in an interview for the New York Times published on Wednesday.

Since winning the
Presidential election, Biden has hinted at mending US’ relationship with Europe
and Asia-Pacific, forming a front with other Democracies in the regions to put up
a united counterweight against China.

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Biden singled out Chinese
President Xi Jinping in a debate with other Presidential candidates in February,
calling him “…a guy who doesn’t have a democratic- with a small d- bone in his
body,”. He further termed Jinping to be a ‘thug’.

Biden’s campaign
further termed China’s crackdown on Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang province as
a ‘genocide’, provoking Beijing and potentially inviting legal consequences.