President Donald Trump “was right” to have a “tougher position on China,” Antony Blinken, nominated for Secretary of State by the United States President-elect Joe Biden, declared Tuesday, while noting his “disagreement.” , on the strategy of the outgoing government “in many points”.
“The basic principle was correct,” he told the Foreign Relations Committee senators about the firmness shown by the Trump administration.
“We must face China from a position of strength, not of weakness,” he said, noting that this implies “working with allies instead of denigrating them, participating in and leading international institutions” instead of abandoning them.
Shortly before Blinken spoke in the Senate, current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that China is carrying out a genocide against Uighurs and other Turkmen-speaking Muslim ethnicities.
And Trump himself will refer to China on Tuesday in his farewell speech to the White House, according to excerpts issued in advance.
“We revitalize our alliances and encourage the nations of the world to stand up to China like never before,” says the outgoing president.
Something that many European leaders will question, scandalized by his personal confrontations and Trump’s increasingly low reputation in countries that are friendly to the United States.
However, Trump achieved a rapprochement between Israel and the Gulf countries.
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