World News | US in ‘decisive decade’ of competition with China: NSA Sullivan

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (PTI) The United States has entered a “defining decade” as it faces competition with China while facing climate change, energy, food security, international challenges such as terrorism and disease. The Biden administration has unveiled its national security strategy.

The Biden administration released its national security strategy on Wednesday as a reference point for officials to coordinate policy across the government.

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Ahead of the document’s official release, Sullivan said the strategy’s basic premise was that the United States had entered a decisive decade on two fundamental strategic challenges.

“The first is the competition between great powers to shape the future of the international order. The second is that, as this competition unfolds, we need to address a range of transnational challenges that affect people around the world, including in the United States – from climate change to food insecurity, infectious diseases, terrorism, energy transition, inflation,” he said.

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“This decisive decade will be critical in defining the conditions of competition (especially with China) and in addressing the enormous challenges that, if we lose time in this decade, we will not be able to keep pace with the most visible climate crisis, but There are other challenges,” Sullivan said, referring to China’s official name.

He pointed out that this strategy makes it clear that these shared challenges are not marginal issues, that they are not secondary to geopolitics, but operate concurrently with geopolitical competition with the great powers.

Sullivan said there is a tension between trying to work together to address these shared challenges and trying to effectively position ourselves to win in the strategic competition. But there are also ways to enhance these.

“We fundamentally believe that the core elements of what the United States has to do over the next few years are the same for both sets of challenges,” he added.

“Specifically, we need to invest in potential sources and tools of American power and influence, especially our domestic power, both to compete effectively and to unite the world to address common challenges,” he said.

“Secondly, we need to build the strongest coalition of nations to enhance our collective influence, both to shape the global strategic environment and to confront these transnational threats that require cooperation to succeed,” he told reporters.

“Finally, we need to develop 21st century rules of the road in key areas – from emerging technologies in cyberspace to trade, economics, investment and more – so that the international order continues to reflect our values ​​and our interests for better design international order to meet future challenges,” Sullivan said.

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