{"id":34379,"date":"2021-07-25T14:30:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T05:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/jul\/25\/an-explosion-is-coming-biden-races-to-unite-allies-against-china"},"modified":"2021-07-25T14:30:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T05:30:43","slug":"an-explosion-is-coming-biden-races-to-unite-allies-against-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34379","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An explosion is coming\u2019: Biden races to unite allies against China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US president is being much tougher than expected on Beijing, but a lack of solidarity will undermine his policy\u2019s success<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s generally accepted in Washington that once-buoyant hopes for the emergence of a free, democratic China, initially sparked by Richard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/feb\/22\/richard-nixon-china-visit-mao-and-zhou-1972\" title=\"\">Nixon\u2019s groundbreaking 1972<\/a> visit, have sunk without trace. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/xi-jinping\" title=\"\">President Xi Jinping<\/a>\u2019s regime is now described as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-slams-china-as-systemic-rival-as-trade-tension-rises\/\" title=\"\">systemic rival<\/a>\u201d, \u201cstrategic competitor\u201d or outright \u201cthreat\u201d. The EU, Nato, the UK, and regional allies broadly agree: the era of engagement is over.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s lacking is agreement over what comes next. The hole where common policy and joint action should be gapes ever more dangerously amid almost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/20\/world\/asia\/china-biden.html\" title=\"\">daily collisions<\/a> on multiple fronts with Xi\u2019s aggressive, authoritarian one-party state. If it\u2019s not about human rights abuses, cyberhacking, or trade, it\u2019s Taiwan, visas, spying, maritime disputes, the Indian border, or alleged hostage-taking.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/jul\/25\/an-explosion-is-coming-biden-races-to-unite-allies-against-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US president is being much tougher than expected on Beijing, but a lack of solidarity will undermine his policy\u2019s successIt\u2019s generally accepted in Washington that once-buoyant hopes for the emergence of a free, democratic China, initially sparked &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,939,45,47,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-joe-biden","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34390,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34379\/revisions\/34390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}