The right way to confront China

Biden administration should show world why it is better to partner with US

Ian Bremmer

May 14, 2021 05:00 JST

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Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, right, and China's President Xi Jinping visit Piraeus port near Athens in November 2019: if Washington demands that doing business with the U.S. requires not doing business with China, it risks ceding much of the world to Beijing, © AP

Ian Bremmer is the president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media and author of "Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism."

The U.S.-China relationship is heading for more confrontation because there is too much at stake politically for President Joe Biden at home for him to look for a reset, and because Biden and, for that matter, pretty much the entire political spectrum in the U.S., has serious objections to China's vision of the way the world should be run.