The challenges to the U.S. posed by China exceed these of the Cold War, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell mentioned on Wednesday, charging that Beijing’s assist for Russia’s protection business got here instantly from China’s management.
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has been specific that it isn’t in search of a chilly conflict with China, however more and more analysts and members of the U.S. Congress have mentioned escalating world competitors between the 2 superpowers resembled a distinct however new fashion of chilly conflict.
Campbell informed a House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee listening to that Washington wanted to keep up a bipartisan concentrate on China and step up the velocity of U.S. naval shipbuilding and the capability of the U.S. protection manufacturing base.