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Internal Woes Thwarting China's Global Ambitions, Reports Say

Nike Ching

   WASHINGTON - The U.S. State Department and American lawmakers in the
   Senate are outlining the risks and opportunities in Washington's
   relationship with China in two new reports.

   At the State Department, a report published Tuesday and described as a
   blueprint for the U.S. response to China's rise as an authoritarian
   superpower, says Beijing's Communist Party is facing internal
   vulnerabilities, frustrating its growing global ambitions.

   "China under the CCP is marked by a variety of vulnerabilities. These
   begin with the disadvantages endemic to autocracy: constraints on
   innovation, difficulties forming and maintaining alliances, and costs
   arising from internal repression," the State Department's Office of
   Policy Planning wrote in the report, titled, [1]"The Elements of the
   China Challenge."

   On Capitol Hill Wednesday, congressional leaders called for improving
   collaboration between the United States and Europe on the challenges
   posed by China. Lawmakers on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
   said China has become a rival to European and American interests, which
   must recognize and respond to the reality.

   'The Elements of the China Challenge'

   The State Department's report said countries around the globe have
   witnessed the weaknesses of Beijing's government when a local epidemic
   turned into a global pandemic because of mismanagement and coverups
   from a government that largely rejects transparency.

   "In the wake of the illness, death, and social and economic devastation
   wrought worldwide by the COVID-19 pandemic born in Wuhan --mounting
   international anger at the CCP's contempt for human life, indifference
   to other nations' well-being, and disregard for international norms and
   obligations" are among them, said the report.

References

   1. https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20-02832-Elements-of-China-Challenge-508.pdf

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