Chinese communist ideology has become the driving force behind President Xi Jinping’s campaign to make the regime the world’s dominant power, according to the White House’s most senior China affairs policymaker.
Kurt Campbell, the National Security Council coordinator for the Indo-Pacific, said in a new, in-depth interview that the newly emerging dictatorial system under Mr. Xi poses a threat to the U.S.-led democratic world order that has produced unrivaled peace and prosperity.
Asked about the article, Mr. Campbell said the multi-decade engagement policy that ended during the Trump administration was promoted by U.S. officials with “overly ambitious goals for how Chinese society would change and evolve.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen both recently made separate visits to China for talks, and John Kerry, presidential climate envoy, is currently in China.
Mr. Campbell helped set up U.S.-China military communications channels, including a maritime consultative group in the 1990s. “The challenge has been that China has chosen generally not to use them for a whole host of reasons,” he said. “In some respects, it harkens back to an earlier era in China, where ideology and the [Communist Party] line were of paramount importance,” he said.
The careful military expansion conducted under prior Chinese President Hu Jintao has shifted in a large-scale conventional and nuclear arms buildup under Mr. Xi. The Chinese leader “has exhibited a degree of impatience and ambition with respect to Taiwan that concerns us,” Mr. Campbell said.
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