In a long-awaited speech, Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlined the Biden administration’s approach to China Thursday, stressing that the United States is not seeking to ignite conflict, but instead executing a strategy he summarized as “invest, align, compete.”
Though Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has dominated global events over the past several months, the United States “remain[s] focused on the most serious long-term challenge to the international order — and that’s posed by the People’s Republic of China,” Blinken asserted while speaking at George Washington University.
