China - US geopolitical tensions | Ipse by Context

Wang Wenbin

Inserted 10 hours ago

“China is not the creator of or a party to the Ukraine Crisis. We have been on the side of peace and dialogue and committed to promoting peace talks. We actively support putting in place a balanced, effective and sustainable European security architecture. Our fair and objective position and constructive role have been widely recognized. 'Let the person who tied the bell on the tiger untie it,' to quote a Chinese saying. Our message to the US: stop shifting the blame on China; do not try to drive a wedge between China and Europe; and it is time to stop fueling the flame and start making real contribution to finding a political solution to the Ukraine crisis.”

Fmprc

Spokesperson of China and deputy director of the Foreign Ministry Information Department of China

17 May 2024 5 5

Chen Jining

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Whether China and the U.S. choose cooperation or confrontation, it affects the well-being of both peoples, of both nations, and also the future of humanity.”

Nytimes

Communist Party chief in Shanghai

25 Apr 2024 5 3

Aleksey Kushch

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“By including the Ukraine package in a bill that also provides military aid to Israel and Taiwan, the US shows the world that it equals Ukraine's and Israel's archenemies - Russia and Iran. This is a mighty geopolitical slap for China. As the trade turnover between Russia and China rose to $240bn last year, the more the US pushes Beijing, the more discounts for oil and gas China gets from Russia.”

Aljazeera

Kyiv-based analyst

25 Apr 2024 9 6

Einar Tangen

Inserted 1 year ago

“The US-led partnership for maritime domain awareness (IMPDA) is a thinly veiled rationale for the creation of a surveillance network, aimed at criticizing China's fishing industry. It will serve as another irritant in what is a deteriorating international relationship.”

Aljazeera

Beijing-based political analyst

28 May 2022 4 6

Christopher Heurlin

Inserted 1 year ago

“It's fairly clear that Xi Jinping views his most important legacy as making China a superpower, as returning China to what he sees as its historically rightful place as a world power. And that means economic growth, but it also means becoming a military power that's able to exert a large influence on politics in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. For the US, focusing on competition with China is one of the few things that unites Republicans and Democrats. There's definitely a desire to preserve America's superpower status and its influence in the world order, which does mean that these two countries do have conflicting objectives to a certain extent. So, there is certainly potential for tensions at the very least.”

Aljazeera

Associate professor of government and Asian studies at Bowdoin College in the US state of Maine

26 May 2022 6 4

Kerry Boyd Anderson

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Biden administration sees China as an increasingly assertive economic, military and political competitor. Washington is keenly aware that Beijing is working to assert the superiority of its style of autocratic government, in direct contrast to liberal democracy. Biden's recent Summit for Democracy served several purposes for the administration, including building a network of countries that reject China's more authoritarian approach. At the same time, the Biden team does not believe it is possible or desirable to fully isolate China. Rather, they seek to balance competition with the pragmatic understanding that the two countries must cooperate on some economic and environmental issues.”

Arabnews

Writer and political risk consultant with more than 18 years of experience as a professional analyst of international security issues and Middle East political and business risk

25 Dec 2021 6 4

Lloyd Austin

Inserted 2 years ago

“China is the only power capable of using its economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to mount a sustained challenge to a stable and open international system. The world's two largest economic powers have real differences both over interests and values, but the way that you manage them counts. Chinese leaders have been increasingly vocal about their dissatisfaction with the prevailing order - and about their aim of displacing America from its global leadership role. We seek neither confrontation nor conflict... We're not seeking a new cold war or a world divided into rigid blocs.”

Taipeitimes

US Secretary of Defense

04 Dec 2021 6 3

Lloyd Austin

Inserted 2 years ago

“In the past few months, the Chinese military has mounted a series of sea and air operations near Taiwan. It looks a lot like them exploring their true capabilities. It looks a lot like rehearsals.”

Taipeitimes

US Secretary of Defense

04 Dec 2021 2 4

Lijian Zhao

Inserted 2 years ago

“The relevant Pentagon report fully exposes the true intention of the US to militarize the Indo-Pacific and go all out to encircle and contain China. The development of China's national defense forces is entirely out of the need to safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests and maintain international and regional peace and security. This is fundamentally different from the US' flagrant sabre-rattling around the world, hegemonic and bullying practices and disruption in regional peace and stability. We firmly oppose the US side's attempt to justify its moves to increase military expenditure, expand military build-up and maintain military hegemony with the 'China threat theory'. The US side should abandon the Cold-War mentality of creating imaginary enemies and stop words and deeds that threaten international peace and security.”

Fmprc

Spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry

30 Nov 2021 11 4

Einar Tangen

Inserted 2 years ago

“Both China and Russia feel the US is a hypocritical aggressor who is intent on diminishing them in order to maintain hegemony.”

Aljazeera

Beijing-based political analyst

25 Nov 2021 3 4

Matthew Goodman

Inserted 2 years ago

“When it comes to US-China relations, the gaps are so big and the trend lines are so problematic that the personal touch can only go so far.”

Aljazeera

Asia adviser on the National Security Council during the Barack Obama and George W Bush administrations

15 Nov 2021 1 3

Wang Wenbin

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Defense Department report, just like similar reports in the past, disregards facts and is filled with bias. The US is using this report to hype up the 'China nuclear threat' theory. The international community has long seen through this trick of manipulating rhetoric in an attempt to confuse public opinion. As a matter of fact, the top source of nuclear threat in the world is no other but the US itself. According to statistics of relevant international think tanks, by the beginning of 2021, the US actually owned 5,550 nuclear warheads. Despite possessing the world's largest and most advanced nuclear arsenal, the US is still investing trillions of dollars to upgrade its 'nuclear triad', developing low-yield nuclear weapons, and lowering the threshold for using nuclear weapons.”

Fmprc

Spokesperson of China and deputy director of the Foreign Ministry Information Department of China

04 Nov 2021 8 3

Global Times

Inserted 2 years ago

“A fundamental danger is that the political conflicts across the Taiwan Straits are intensifying with no sign of easing. The DPP [Democratic Progressive Party] authority is opposed to reunification and is seeking 'independence.' The strategic hostility of the US toward the Chinese mainland continues to rise. No matter how to evaluate a war, predictions that a war will eventually occur due to irreconcilable political conflicts or miscalculation are growing among the three sides [China - Taiwan - US].”

Globaltimes

Editorial piece by Global Times

02 Nov 2021 5 5

Yin Dongyu

Inserted 2 years ago

“The increasingly loud voices sounding alarm of a potential China-US conflict in the South China Sea mostly came from the fact that the US is now seeing China on equal footing because of the latter's growing army. And that's quite a good indication of China's growing military strength already. No one can say without hesitation whether China and the US would go into real conflict over Taiwan or South China Sea, but with China's growing army, no one wants to see that happen. China's military strength has been significantly boosted by a large number of new weapons being added to the arsenal, especially in its Navy force. That's where the country's army is showing some of its fastest growth.”

Aljazeera

Beijing-based analyst on the Chinese military

29 Oct 2021 6 4

Mark Milley

Inserted 2 years ago

“I don't know if it's quite a Sputnik moment, but I think it's very close to that. Now, if you take a step back, what we're in history-wise, we're in one of the most significant changes in what I call the 'character of war'. We're going to have to adjust our military going forward.”

Aljazeera

US Army general and the 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

27 Oct 2021 4 6

Evan Medeiros

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Taiwan issue has ceased to be a sort of narrow, boutique issue, and it's become a central theater - if not the central drama - in U.S.-China strategic competition.”

Nytimes

Asia specialist in the Obama administration and professor at Georgetown University

09 Oct 2021 2 4

William Burns

Inserted 2 years ago

“Chinese government is the most important geopolitical threat we face in the 21st century. Throughout our history, CIA has stepped up to meet whatever challenges come our way. And now facing our toughest geopolitical test in a new era of great power rivalry, CIA will be at the forefront of this effort.”

Theguardian

CIA Director

07 Oct 2021 4 2

Simon Jenkins

Inserted 2 years ago

“With its newly powerful status, China has embraced military aggrandisement, sensitivity to criticism and a regional sphere of influence, all syndromes that should be familiar to the US. Time alone will tell where this leads. But for the west now to open a cold war with China must be beyond stupid, and for Britain especially fatuous.”

Theguardian

Guardian columnist

21 Sep 2021 5 6

António Guterres

Inserted 2 years ago

“Unfortunately, today we only have confrontation. We need to re-establish a functional relationship between the two powers. [The relations is] essential to address the problems of vaccination, the problems of climate change and many other global challenges that cannot be solved without constructive relations within the international community and mainly among the superpowers. We need to avoid at all cost a cold war that would be different from the past one, and probably more dangerous and more difficult to manage.”

Taipeitimes

Secretary-general of the United Nations

18 Sep 2021 5 4

Zhongping Song

Inserted 2 years ago

“The US warship's transit through the Taiwan Straits is about sending a provocative message, and to encourage Taiwan secessionism, but the US military is not ready for a war with the PLA. So the PLA's [People's Liberation Army] action in the region is not just targeting any specific move made by the US, because the US' intention is clear, and what the PLA is doing is about preparing for the worst case scenario - an all-out military intervention made by US and its allies, and only by doing so, the PLA will be able to defeat all kinds of enemies, especially the foreign interventionist forces, when China launches an operation to reunify Taiwan with the mainland. There is no secret that the military exercises the PLA has conducted around Taiwan are targeting secessionist forces on the island and any foreign forces that support them. We can openly tell them that we are treating them as simulated enemies during those relevant military exercises.”

Globaltimes

Chinese mainland military expert and TV commentator

18 Sep 2021 9 7

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“Whether China and the U.S. choose cooperation or confrontation, it affects the well-being of both peoples, of both nations, and also the future of humanity.”

“The US-led partnership for maritime domain awareness (IMPDA) is a thinly veiled rationale for the creation of a surveillance network, aimed at criticizing China's fishing industry. It will serve as another irritant in what is a deteriorating international relationship.”

“In the past few months, the Chinese military has mounted a series of sea and air operations near Taiwan. It looks a lot like them exploring their true capabilities. It looks a lot like rehearsals.”

“Both China and Russia feel the US is a hypocritical aggressor who is intent on diminishing them in order to maintain hegemony.”

“When it comes to US-China relations, the gaps are so big and the trend lines are so problematic that the personal touch can only go so far.”

“I don't know if it's quite a Sputnik moment, but I think it's very close to that. Now, if you take a step back, what we're in history-wise, we're in one of the most significant changes in what I call the 'character of war'. We're going to have to adjust our military going forward.”

“The Taiwan issue has ceased to be a sort of narrow, boutique issue, and it's become a central theater - if not the central drama - in U.S.-China strategic competition.”

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