A Study Of Sino-US Relations Under The Biden Administration

Sino-US relations are the most important and complex bilateral relationship in today’s international system,and their development and changes have become the most central dependent variable influencing future changes in the world order.With the rapid rise of China and the relative decline of US power in the 21 st century,China and the US "have to navigate a complex stage",whether to continue "constructive engagement",engage in "synergistic evolution",build a new type of great power together,or to define China as a "revisionist state" and engage in trade,technology and financial wars,thus breaking through the previous "tipping point" of competition and moving towards a "new Cold War" between China and the US? The "new Cold War" has become a pivotal issue in the transformation of the world order.After taking office,the Biden administration has defined China as its "most serious competitor".The government has also introduced a number of policies and bills that explicitly state that it will "improve America’s core competitiveness" and "rebuild a better world",and that it will engage in "comprehensive strategic competition" with China in order to maintain America’s global hegemony and leadership in the world.From the many discussions at home and abroad,whether Biden will restart "constructive engagement" or continue to inherit the Trump-style,"China-US decoupling" is seen as the original point of policy on whether China-US relations can be turned around.However,it cannot be denied that since the beginning of the new century,the US hegemonic view has been gradually changing,the US hegemonic psychology has been drastically changing,and the US view of China has also been transmogrified,and such changes have somehow determined that the US strategy towards China will also enter a new stage of adaptation.Under the Biden administration,"competition,confrontation and cooperation" has become the main policy instruments of the US strategy towards China;promoting a multi-disciplinary,all-round and mutually penetrating policy of suppression has become a significant tendency of the US strategy towards China;maintaining a certain degree of strategic ambiguity while engaging in containment and curbing in contact has become the core strategy of Biden in dealing with China-US relations.The core strategy of Biden in dealing with China-US relations is to maintain a certain degree of strategic ambiguity while engaging in containment within containment.The China-US relationship is undergoing structural changes,and even a strategist like Kissinger admits that "the relationship cannot go back to the past".The root cause of this is still the US’s strategic anxiety about its declining hegemony,its strategic vigilance over the rise of China,and the resulting pessimistic strategic expectations and "strategic shadow".Therefore,how to protect hegemony and maintain the primacy of the United States is both the starting point of the US strategy towards China under the Bush,Obama and Trump administrations,and the most fundamental strategic motivation for the US to deal with China in this way under the Biden administration.In view of this,this paper will explore the US strategy towards China and the direction of China-US relations during the Biden administration from the perspective of how the US has exercised hegemonic patronage.In addition to the introduction,this paper is divided into five chapters.Chapter one focuses on the concept and connotation of "hegemonic patronage",and analyses the internal logic and roots of US hegemonic patronage,discussing the possibilities and problems of China-US relations in the three states of enemy,adversary and friend.The second chapter collects and collates the perceptions and attitudes of various sectors in the United States towards China-US relations,and understands the Biden administration’s philosophy of adjusting China-US relations,thus increasing the rationality and predictability of the Biden strategy towards China.Chapter three specifically discusses the Biden administration’s key areas of competition with China as well as important initiatives.Knowing one’s enemy can help us better deal with US suppression and containment.Chapter four turns to an analysis of the difficulties encountered by the Biden administration in pursuing its China strategy and reconstructing China-US relations.The combined constraints of many domestic and external factors have forced the Biden administration to compromise with reality.Chapter five focuses on the analysis and prediction of the direction and trend of Sino-US relations,with the possibility of future conflict,competition and cooperation between China and the US.China and the US are two giant ships sailingin the ocean.We should make sure that the two sides will "break waves and forge ahead together without losing direction or speed,still less colliding with each other".