Look at the news knows reporter Ma Yingying
2022-01-20 19:12
On January 19, local time, US President Joe Biden held a press conference at the White House for the first anniversary of his presidency, marking the official end of his first year in power.
Comprehensive foreign media reports, at the press conference, Biden reviewed the work done by the US government in the past year in the fight against the epidemic, vaccine promotion, job creation and other issues, and talked about international topics such as the situation in Ukraine. Biden said the past year has been challenging, but "tremendous progress has also been made."
However, the American people do not seem to "buy" biden's statement, and the latest poll support data shows that in the first year, Biden's approval rating has fallen dramatically, from 60% in the first days of office to 43% today. Su Xiaohui, deputy director of the Institute of American Studies at the China Institute of International Studies, pointed out that the decline in support rates shows that the American people are clearly skeptical about Biden's anti-epidemic and economic policies. 、
When it comes to U.S. diplomacy, Biden highlighted the current tensions between the United States and Russia. Biden believes Russia is preparing to take action against Ukraine, but he also believes that Putin has not yet made a final decision.
In Su Xiaohui's view, Biden's remarks have exposed that the United States still has not made up its mind on its current policy toward Russia, and even has some vacillations. The judgment of Russian policy is also unclear, and even ambiguous in the wording of Russia's military launch, so that the White House needs to clarify Biden's statement afterwards, emphasizing that the United States is firmly opposed to Russia's military action against Ukraine.
The foreign policy dilemma is also reflected in the negotiation attitude of the Sino-US trade agreement, biden said that it is not ready for whether to relax the measures to impose tariffs on Chinese goods, while saying that the US Trade Representative Dai Qi is "working on this", but "the answer is uncertain.".
Su Xiaohui said that the helplessness revealed in Biden's speech is that on the one hand, he realized that suppressing China through the tariff stick of economic and trade policy will only cause both China and the United States to lose in the end. On the other hand, through more than a year of dealing with China, Biden also realized that China's request for the United States to cancel tariffs is by no means begging and will not make unreasonable concessions to this end. It is precisely for this reason that Biden did not show the China policy as the highlight of his administration in his speech.
However, although the policy of competition with China in the past year has not achieved the expected results, the overall situation of great power competition in the future of the US Policy toward China will not change. Su Xiaohui frankly said that the United States will regard China as its primary competitor and will further increase its weight in terms of strategy. However, in the context of the current tension between the United States and Russia, the United States must realize that it is an impossible task to concentrate on suppressing China. Relations between China and the United States remain complex and volatile.
(Look at the news Knows reporter Ma Yingying)