President JoeBiden's push to turn U.S. attention toward China has been thwarted by Russia's aggressive posture toward Ukraine.
And while presidents can multitask, Biden is just the latest commander in chief whose overarching foreign policy shift toward China has been undermined by emerging threats.The United States has been distracted from China since the"rebalance" announcement a decade ago, according to former Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Stilwell.
Putin's bullish behavior is of international consequence. But it has also had repercussions for Biden regarding China, overshadowing Secretary of State Antony Blinken's recent Quadrilateral Security Dialogue meetings with Australia, India, and Japan. The alliance was renewed under Biden to counter China's influence in the Indo-Pacific, yet Blinken was questioned about Russia.
Another instance is China's defiance as host of the 2022 Winter Olympics amid criticism of its poor human rights record. China's public embrace of Russia is similarly problematic for the U.S., according to Scott Kennedy of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping and Putin engaged in high-level discussions on the opening ceremony's sidelines, a symbolic middle finger to Biden's democracies vs. autocracies rhetoric.
Yet Kennedy, who encouraged Biden to explore bilateral opportunities with China, contended that China is not as"comfortable" as Russia with"chaos" since it does not benefit from it.
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