US President Joe Biden said, in his first address to the Congress, that he was not seeking conflict with China or Russia as he put a renewed focus on diplomacy.
He said “We are in a competition with China and other countries to win the 21st century. Autocrats think democracies can’t compete”. The US President said that he spoke to the Chinese President for 2 hours, and had said, “We welcome the competition — and that we are not looking for conflict … But the US will defend its interests across the board. America will stand up to unfair trade practices that undercut American workers and industries, like subsidies for state-owned enterprises and the theft of American technologies and intellectual property. I also told President Xi that we will maintain a strong military presence in the Indo-Pacific just as we do with NATO in Europe, not to start a conflict but to prevent one”.
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