Washington [US]National Security Advisor (NSA) Jake Sullivan said on Wednesday that China represents America’s most consequential geopolitical challenge to the United States, as the Biden administration released a key policy document on national security. “Next, we believe that in the geopolitical space, the PRC represents America’s most consequential geopolitical challenge. And while this will largely play out in the Indo-Pacific, the challenge also has global dimensions,” Sullivan Biden- Harris said during an on-the-record press call previewing the administration’s national security strategy. The policy document argues that competition with China is most pronounced in the Indo-Pacific, but it is also increasingly global.
“Around the world, the competition to write the rules of the road and shape the relationships that govern global affairs is ongoing in every field and in economics, technology, diplomacy, development, security and global governance,” it adds. The US security strategy highlighted that the next ten years would be a defining decade of competition with China.
The national security strategy says both China and Russia, which this year announced a “no-limit partnership”, are increasingly at odds with each other, but the challenges they face differ. However, the Sullivan security strategy also makes it clear that the US avoids looking at the world only through the prism of strategic competition and does not intend to attempt to divide the world into rigid blocs.
“We are not seeking a confrontation or a competing tip in a new Cold War. And we are not engaging each country as just a proxy battlefield. We are going to engage the countries on their terms. and are going to pursue a positive agenda to advance the common interests, and to promote stability and prosperity,” he said.
“We now stand at a juncture where the choices we make and the priorities we pursue today will set us on a course that determines our competitive position in the future,” the document said. The policy states that many US allies and partners, particularly in the Indo-Pacific, stand at the fore of China’s coercion and are right to seek their own security and prosperity. “We will support their ability to make sovereign decisions consistent with their interests and values, free from external pressure, and work to provide high-standard and large-scale investment, development support and markets,” it adds.
On the Russo-Ukraine conflict, the document says that Moscow’s “imperialist foreign policy” culminated in “a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in an attempt to topple its government and bring it under Russian control.” “Over the past decade, the Russian document states that the government has chosen to pursue an imperialist foreign policy with the goal of overturning key elements of the international order. The Biden administration says that Russia is no longer responsible for international peace and stability. poses an immediate and persistent threat to