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Biden vows to protect US sovereignty if China 'threatens it'

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Agencies
  • 8 Feb 2023 08:37
3 Min Read

US President Joe Biden says in his State of the Union speech that the United States is in "the strongest position in decades to compete with China" both economically and militarily.

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  • US President Joe Biden talks about passing an assault weapons ban as he delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, February 7, 2023. (AP)
    US President Joe Biden talks about passing an assault weapons ban as he delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, February 7, 2023. (AP)

For the past week, a Chinese balloon, shot down over the weekend, dazzled US politics and intelligence officials who alleged that the balloon was used for surveillance. However, the Chinese Foreign Ministry stressed that it was only a civilian balloon used for meteorological research. 

US President Joe Biden warned in his State of the Union address that if China threatened the nation, his administration will respond accordingly. 

“Make no mistake: as we made clear last week, if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country," Biden vowed to the US public.

“Don’t bet against America,” he underscored, which prompted a chorus of "USA" chants. "It has never been a good bet to bet against America."
 
The US president stated that "winning the competition with China" should unite Americans and that the US is in the strongest position to compete with Beijing or "anyone else in the world."

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In light of the downed Chinese balloon, Biden's comments come as US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters that the US has no intention of returning the Chinese balloon to Beijing. 

The US is intent on not only keeping the debris of the Chinese balloon but to "exploit what we recover and learn even more than we have learned", Sullivan said on Monday. 

Biden received a wave of backlash as US officials criticized the commander-in-chief over beliefs that he failed to act decisively enough. The president later explained that he chose to hold off on shooting down the balloon until it was over airspace that would not "cause injuries to the wider public."

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng on Monday reiterated that the downing was harmful to US-Chinese relations.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry stated on Saturday that "China... never violated the territory and airspace of any sovereign country," adding that "some politicians and media in the United States used the (balloon) incident as a pretext to attack and smear China."

In light of the balloon shoot-down and China's response of possible retaliation, the Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council in the White House, John Kirby, assured that no reason exists to escalate tensions between the US and China over the balloon and that Secretary of State Antony Blinken's trip to China "was postponed, it was not canceled,” 

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