On Friday, the national security advisor to US President Joe Biden, Jake Sullivan, stated that in order to triumph over the rivalry between the US and China, the President will impose costs on China and simultaneously work towards strengthening democracy at home, reported AFP. 

Sullivan said that in order to ensure the US’s retention of the place it currently holds in the international community, it is essential to make substantial investments in technology and put the alliances of the country under review. 

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He said, “China was becoming more explicit in contending that it had a better model,” while cryptically pointing towards the former US President Donald Trump, who is accused of inciting violence at the US Capitol on January 6. 

While speaking at the US Institute of Peace, the aide to President Biden said, “They’re pointing to dysfunction and division in the United States and saying — take a look at that, their system doesn’t work, our system does. So step one is to refurbish the fundamental foundation of our democracy. And that goes for everything from our democratic system itself to issues of racial inequity to issues of economic inequality — all the things that have contributed to the shine coming off the American model”, reported AFP. 

The newly instated Presidential administration in the US has previously hinted that it will retain the foreign policy for China in a broad sense concerning a range of issues like human rights abuses, trade and territorial claims. 

He added, “The administration will impose costs for what China is doing in Xinjiang, what it’s doing in Hong Kong, for the bellicosity and threats that it is projecting towards Taiwan. With our allies and partners in both Europe and Asia, we represent well more than half of the world’s economy.”

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Robert O’Brien, the National Security Advisor to Trump and a panelist addressing the audience at the same event, complimented the work of the Biden administration and said they were “off to a great start on China.”

Sullivan stated that the new administration would also heavily promote research in areas including clean energy, artificial intelligence,  biotechnology and quantum computing among others. 

“That requires a combination of working closely with allies and partners in making an aggressive, ambitious public investment here in the United States so that we stay on the cutting edge”, reported AFP.