01 Viewpoint
The US election is approaching. The Republican Democratic Party has recently held a official nomination of candidates. As expected, the current President Trump competes for re -election on behalf of the Republican Party to show off the challenger of the Democratic Party Joe Biden.Due to the rapid deterioration of Sino -US relations, the two parties' policies for China have naturally become one of the popular issues of this election, and politics and commentators of various countries will expect how to change the US policy for the United States after this year's election.Regarding the US policy towards China, it has always been believed that the China Eagle School has become the consensus between the Republican and Democratic parties. No matter who the election result is the president, the result will be similar.This view is reasonable, but this is not the case.
Biden retain space
Trump's political platform almost uses Sinophobia as the main axis. Whether in the policy or election of political platforms, Trump is almost inseparable from China.The Trump administration has recently launched a series of tough policies for China, including blocking Chinese communications giants such as Huawei and ZTE, forcing Tiktok to sell, etc. Chinese issues have also become his campaign issues.He once used China to not like him and pointed out that China would intervene in the election and defeated him, and on the occasion of various countries, he would deal with China with a tough attitude.At the Republican Conference on Monday (24th), Trump officially acted on behalf of the Republican Party. The entire main theme of the conference was almost emphasizing a tough policy for China. In addition to tax cuts, it rarely touched issues related to internal contradictions.
In contrast to the Trump team, the attitude of Biden and the Democratic Party seemed to be reserved.Although Biden's political platform actually lacks real reforms, and the progress of progress is only more slogan than reality, at least compared to Trump, the Democratic Party still knows that the focus is on the internal contradictions of racial problems, the gap between the rich and the poor, rather than betrayal.Note on the external contradiction in China.This has led the Democratic Party to China to have a place for China, but it has also become the focus of Trump's attack.Trump kept saying Biden as a Chinese spokesperson, calling him Beijing Beijing Joe, etc., claiming that Biden would be defeated in China if he was elected to the United States.
Although the Democratic Party cannot be called friendly to China, it cannot be simply talked with Trump's style of Huagong.Biden and the Democratic Party are not friendly to China on issues such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang. For example, Biden said that he would not ignore the Hong Kong issue, and the Democratic Party's latest party platform was not mentioned because it did not mention a China.These reflect the consensus of American cross -party factions, and will not change too much on the values they insist on.But this does not mean that Biden's policy for China is exactly the same as Trump.For example, Biden said that if he was elected, he would review Trump's tariff policy.This seems to be on the issue of Biden on China. It is not as good as Trump to blindly play cards with eagle, otherwise he will tend to consider it carefully.
Diplomacy is an extension of internal affairs
The so -called consensus on the two parties in the United States to China is not completely wrong.Because both parties regard China as the main competitors and threats, they believe that it is difficult to meet China in terms of values.In order to maintain hegemony, it is necessary to try their best to stop China's development.Having said that, there is the same great cognition, which does not mean that there will be the same confirmation method.As Hong Kong people know that even if there is a common purpose of pursuing democracy, many methodological can be developed.
The Democratic Party has a lot of unknown policies. After all, the Democratic Party has not yet entered the White House.However, according to Bayon's carefulness about the Chinese issue, at least it can be said that Bayon's policy of China will have more pragmatic elements, rather than knowing strongly like Trump.What is the Democratic Party more pragmatic?As the saying goes, diplomacy is an extension of the internal affairs, no diplomacy in weak countries, and US -China diplomacy. In the end, it is not that the mouth of the competition is hard, but a strong competition.China's strength is not as real as the United States, but the United States does not have the strength to make China simply succumb. The diplomacy that knows this point is pragmatic.If Bayon's policy of China and the Democratic Party is really based on pragmaticism, rather than simply panic populist, then the entity that it has obtained will still have a big gap with the Trump administration.The Democratic Party will never say that the trade war is very good or the trade war is easy to win like Trump.Therefore, it is not true that the United States Republican and Democratic parties are the same.
