Beijing, China
“Containing China is an impossible mission,” he warned on Thursday Chinese Ministry of Defense in the United States, while the new Biden administration tries to unite its Asian allies against Beijing.
Military tensions between the two major world powers rose under the tenure of former President Donald Trump, who had taken an aggressive stance on issues such as Taiwan and the South China Sea.
However, this firmness has not prevented the Chinese army has strengthened its deterrent capacity and its navy in recent years.
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“The facts have shown that contain a China it’s an impossible mission and it’s like shooting yourself in the foot, “warned Wu Qian, a spokesman for China’s defense ministry.
“Les Chinese-American military relations they are now at a new historic starting point “with the arrival of Joe Biden, he added in an online briefing, calling on Washington to” non-confrontation and mutual respect. “
In recent years, China has increasingly insisted on its sovereignty over the vast majority of the islands and reefs of the South China Sea, to the dismay of other countries such as Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Brunei, which have claims in this area.
Faced with these pretensions considered excessive, the Trump administration sent warships to sail near the Beijing-controlled islands in the name of “freedom of navigation.”
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A hard line that Joe Biden seems to want to follow.
This weekend, the aircraft carrier “Theodore Roosevelt” initiated the first Biden-era “freedom of navigation” mission in the South China Sea. At the same time Washington is increasing contacts with its allies in the Asia-Pacific.
Biden on Wednesday reminded Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of the U.S.’s “firm commitment” to protecting Japan, including the Senkaku / Diaoyu Islands, an uninhabited archipelago claimed by Beijing in the East China Sea.