Incoming US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has signaled a continuation of many elements of the outgoing Biden administration’s China and Indo-Pacific policy.
Making an appearance at the US Institute of Peace (USIP), Mike Waltz, who will take over as Donald Trump’s national security adviser when he is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on January 20, identified China as “a threat in the future.” Greatest advice to the United States and India as an important partner of the United States.
“The president-elect firmly believes that we can avoid conflict with the Chinese Communist Party because they need our markets. We’re going to use the leverage that we have in a way that is consistent with our national security While we still can, Waltz said in a panel discussion with outgoing NSA Jake Sullivan.
Waltz was quick to point out moderator Stephen J. Hadley, a former national security adviser who was also the Republican chair of the US-India Caucus in the last Congress. Sullivan, who was in India last week, told the audience that Waltz is very popular in India and the US-India Congressional Caucus is very popular.
“I was in India just last week. They love you as co-chair of the India Caucus. They love the India Caucus, so they’re excited to have you on board. I told them I’d be the chair. “The Indian Spouses Caucus is moving forward in Congress, they were a little short of that, but we’ll do our best,” Sullivan joked.
AUKUS and the Quad are areas that have continued from one administration to the next, Waltz said. “I think this will continue going forward. So, the supply chain aspect, Sahi Taiwan, we have a backlog of over USD20 billion of things that they have paid for and we need to work hard to free that up and They have to get what they paid for as a preventive measure,” he said.
“Then third, really to continue to strengthen those partnerships and those alliances where I certainly give this administration some credit, is the trilateral dialogue between South Korea, the United States and Japan, and then the United States, “Even between Japan and the Philippines, helping those countries and those governments overcome historical animosity with a shared vision of a truly free and open Indo-Pacific,” he said.
“I think all these things will continue and if I may not mention India again as an important partnership in the future,” Waltz said in response to a question.
Sullivan said China is facing some tough headwinds
Sullivan agreed with his successor. “I agree with basically everything Mike said. I would say that a good China strategy is a good Asia strategy, and that means some of the work we’ve done with respect to our allies and partners We are doing it.” “I think it’s been inherited and passed down,” he said.
“A good China strategy, however, is also a good cooperative strategy on a larger scale, and I think Europe is important in this regard, making sure that the United States supports Europeans working unitedly against unfair Chinese economic practices.” Deeply connected with the people, supply chain resilience piece and much more,” he said.
“Then there is the question of technology. Here we need both promotion and protection. We need to invest domestically to maintain our leadership in the key technologies that will define the future. Here the science part of the Chips and Science Act has never been Has not been fully funded,” he said.
“America at its best over the past decades has been an America that spends dollars on basic research and development to power the innovations that shape the future. And then there’s also the security side. We’ve taken a number of steps to ensure that “We have taken steps to ensure that our high-level technologies that have national security applications cannot be used by China against us or our friends,” he said.
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