US State Department number two Wendy Sherman on Thursday denounced China’s quest for world dominance and urged Europe to help the US fight competition from Beijing. “Even before (Chinese) President Xi and (Russian) President Vladimir Putin declared their ‘borderless’ partnership in February, China was challenging Europe’s security, Europe’s economy and Europe’s values,” Wendy Sherman testified during a video conference Washington with the European press.
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Speaking of China’s “economic harassment” against Europe, Wendy Sherman cited China’s recent blockade of Lithuanian exports, Beijing’s “failure” to build a highway in Montenegro and attacks on European companies such as Adidas and Nike. Wendy Sherman’s press conference follows the speech by her boss, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who recently made Beijing the main threat to the world order despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Washington accuses Beijing of wanting to transform the world order. In a May 25 speech, the US Secretary of State claimed Washington was in fierce competition with Beijing to preserve world order.
The Biden administration has spoken of the need to pressure China to play by the rules, including in its South China Sea and trade disputes. “Even though Beijing is thousands of kilometers away (..), China’s actions have implications for the future of Europe,” stressed Wendy Sherman, who welcomed the ongoing cooperation with the Europeans in this area while “wishing to align our approaches. The American diplomat particularly emphasized the fact that after the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, “everyone is thinking about supply chain issues”.
“The United States is not seeking conflict” with China or “decoupling” its economy from China’s, the deputy secretary of state said. “We don’t want a new Cold War,” she said, “but we can’t count on Beijing changing its behavior.” She also stressed that the United States is “aware” of this Russia-China alliance and Beijing is “with consequences.” ” threatens if the Chinese authorities ever decide to send equipment (weapons, ed.) to Russia, which is currently not the case. However, she denounced that Beijing was massively relaying a whole range of “disinformation” from Moscow. “Honestly, I think Russia and Putin will be pariahs for a very long time, and I’m not sure China will benefit from that,” she concluded.