China prefers Biden or Trump?

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, Bloomberg news agency in a report on China’s view of the US elections and writes: Before the first debate of the US presidential election campaign, US intelligence agencies assess that China has no clear preference between the two candidates. Bloomberg has said that it does not seem to matter to Beijing who the next US president is.

This conclusion shows that Beijing officials, like their counterparts in Washington, believe that relations between the two major economies In spite of the relative improvement that has recently been put forward with the aim of trying to manage disputes, the world will have a downward trend in the long term. In recent years, the two countries have had serious disagreements over everything from technology to human rights to the South China Sea.

Several Chinese sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Bloomberg that Beijing sees every The two candidates for the US presidential election intend to restrain China and disrupt the country’s growth. Gao Zhikai, a former Chinese diplomat who worked as a translator for Deng Xiaoping, the former leader of China, says in this regard: It can be said that none of them make a difference. Biden is a Cold War warrior who doesn’t care about plunging the world into conflict, while Trump is likely to impose sanctions and tariffs on China as part of the “America First” strategy that he saw during his previous presidency. According to Euronews, some observers believe that Trump’s second administration can create important problems for Beijing. In his first term, Trump waged a trade war against China, increased high-level ties with Taiwan, and focused on reorienting US military strategy to counter Beijing. At the end of his presidency, many considered the relationship between China and the United States to be a new Cold War.

However, the relations between these two world powers during the Biden era were not much different from the previous period and the tensions between Beijing and Washington did not experience a decrease.

Chinese officials believe that the other side of the story is that Trump’s presidency could weaken Washington’s relations with its allies and create opportunities. to open for Beijing. The former president’s first term was marked by repeated friction with European allies over defense spending, as well as periodic complaints about the protection spending the United States pays Japan and South Korea.

One Chinese official He told Bloomberg that Trump may be more willing to make deals than Biden, but on the one hand, Trump’s approaches can be a problem for China, and on the other hand, the prospect of a second term for the presidency of Biden does not give much comfort to Beijing.