Biden’s fastball “There is no’d (democratic)’ in Xi Jinping.”

US President Joe Biden, who appeared on CBS’Face the Nation’, which aired on the 7th (local time) and talks about the Chinese problem. [CBS 홈페이지 캡처]

US President Joe Biden said on the 7th (local time) that “it is not necessary to collide with China, but there will be intense competition.” This is the first broadcast interview after taking office with CBS’Face the Nation’.

In an interview, he said, “Why haven’t you spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping yet?” when asked by the moderator, “We haven’t had a chance to talk to each other, but there is no reason not to call.” “I know him quite well.” “As Vice President, I had personal meetings with President Xi for 24 to 25 hours, and since I went on various international stages for 17,000 miles (about 27,350 km), some “I would have spent more time with him than the world leaders.”

He then hurriedly to Xi, saying, “He is very bright and strong, but he is not democratic at all.” He wrote the expression “doesn’t have a democratic, small D, bone in his body.” “It’s not about criticizing it, it’s the reality,” he said. ‘Small D’is interpreted to emphasize the’democratic’ sound similar to the ruling party’Democrat’.

U.S. President Joe Biden (left) signs an administrative order on health at the White House office on the 28th. Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) is speaking through video at the World Economic Forum Davos Special Meeting on the 25th. [AP·신화=연합뉴스]

His predecessor, former President Donald Trump, used the phrase “I have a good relationship with him” as an idiom to President Xi, while publicly denouncing China and fought a trade war. On the other hand, President Biden has questioned President Xi’s head from the start. President Biden is a recognized diplomatic expert. Former President Trump tried to make economic gains based on the terms of the deal, but President Biden foretold that he would face China with international standards such as democracy and human rights, the values ​​that the United States has traditionally led. Ewha Womans University’s Faculty of International Affairs Professor Park In-hui explained, “The Trump-style transaction-oriented pressure was negotiated, but there was room for compromise, but Biden declared that he would press China with a larger framework of norms and values.”

President Biden said in an interview, “We don’t have to clash, but there will be intense competition.” Dan said, “I’m not going to do it the way he knows,” he said. “I’ll focus on the path of international norms, not the way Trump did.” Forty-five days have passed since President Biden took office on the 20th of last month, but no calls have been made between the US and China. It is an analysis that it takes time to reconcile the content and timing due to the symbolism of the first currencies of the two countries.

At the time of his visit to California in 2012, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, along with US Vice President Joe Biden, poses for international school students with T-shirts written in both languages.[AP=연합뉴스]

If Biden’s government deals with China with the standards of democracy, human rights, and international norms, it will inevitably be burdensome for Korea. Biden’s government’s strategy to oppress China based on’principles’ in the crackdown of democratization in Hong Kong and the crackdown of Xinjiang Uyghurs is a hot potato for the South Korean government, who must navigate between the two countries through strategic ambiguity. Above all, the more’d’ (democraticism) is put to the fore, the more the Biden and Moon Jae-in administrations look at North Korea, which is worse than China in the one-party system, individual freedom, and human rights abuses.

The government is looking forward to high-level contact between North Korea and the United States, taking the Trump administration as an exemplary case, but it is unclear whether President Biden will respond to the’democracy principle’ instead of Trump’s’abacus trading technique’. President Biden said in an interview with CBS that Iran sanctions “no sanctions can be lifted without stopping uranium enrichment.” There are observations that it will be the same for North Korea, even in the case of Iran, saying that it will be “stopping the preliminary nuclear proliferation”. Diplomats are raising the possibility that the issue of North Korean concentration camps, which was not largely highlighted during the Trump administration, will re-emerge on the agenda of North Korea.

Vice President Joe Biden and Vice President Xi Jinping during his visit to Beijing, China in August 2011. [AFP=연합뉴스]

Kim Hong-gyun, former head of the Korean Peninsula Peace Bargaining Headquarters, said, “Biden made it clear that he would press China together with his allies.” “On issues that clearly deviate from the principles of democracy such as the Hong Kong crisis, South Korea voiced a voice and demanded that the US and China demand You have to go that way,” he advised.

However, some point out that the biden administration’s pressure on China should be considered in the US domestic politics as well. Professor Jeong-Geon Seo of the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Kyung Hee University said, “It is essential to cooperate with China in restoring the climate change agreement and the Iran Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA) that key supporters of the Democratic Party are demanding. It is expected to use a strong-on strategy for cooperation.”

Reporter Lee Yoo-jung [email protected]