US Should Abandon ‘China Threat’ Narrative, Say Chinese

President Joe Biden will meet in Brussels this week with European Commission officials to discuss how the U.S. and Europe “can work in close coordination on global challenges,” wrote the president Saturday in a Washington Post opinion piece. “We will focus on ensuring that market democracies, not China or anyone else, write the 21st-century rules around trade and technology,” said Biden. "Will the democratic alliances and institutions that shaped so much of the last century prove their capacity against modern-day threats and adversaries? I believe the answer is yes." A Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson shot back Monday that “pursuing bloc politics and small cliques targeting a certain country with ideology as the yardstick and practicing fake, selective multilateralism are moves against the trend of the times that will garner no support and get nowhere.” The U.S. should “stop playing up the ‘China threat’ narrative, and do more things that are conducive to promoting bilateral mutual trust and cooperation and world peace and stability,” said the spokesperson. The White House didn’t respond to questions.