Biden's China 'pivot' complicated by Russia's war in Ukraine

So Biden can't threaten China as much as he would like to as he is being threatened by Russia.

Biden pivoted nobody, he is just an incompetent Cmdr in Chief of the WEST. He has lost Afghanistan last year and he will lose Ukraine sooner later. And this is his second year of his first term. He will lost even more in the last two years.

everything i read about the Ukraine situation refers to it as a "war".... surely "invasion" would be more accurate....

Elections have consequences.

Belarus' president is not even recognized by the UK, US and Europe as the legitimate president.

And he wasn't even ordered by mail.

as he is being threatened by Russia.

In what way?

He has lost Afghanistan last year and he will lose Ukraine sooner later.

Didn't know Biden was at war with the Ukriane. Also Trump started the pullout of Afghanistan in 2020.

everything i read about the Ukraine situation refers to it as a "war".... surely "invasion" would be more accurate....

Well they're fighting back(pretty well actually) so "war" seems accurate also.

“We don’t need China to be with us. We just need them not to be against us,”

Nice to think, but fat chance China will see the US and most of the rest of the world as anything more than a dumping ground for made in China products. Xi Jinping and his CCP will eventually have to decide whether the resources they can get from Russia are worth more to them than the sales of China's goods to the US and other nations., including Japan.

If China thinks it can control the Antarctic and Arctic regions and take most of the resources it wants from there for its own needs, it might decide Russia is nothing more than another rival to leave behind. And if China and Russia start battling over territory, which seems likely, China will eventually split from its totalitarian partner.

Western and other global corporations plus of course the governments they control have contributed to creating China as a nation that morphed into a nuclear armed Frankenstein.

The shift to Asia should've started decades ago. The 2nd and 3rd largest economies are located here. The two most populous countries in the world. The largest Muslim nation on Earth and the 4th most populous.

In addition, aside from Iraq, the last four major US wars have been in Asia.

The thing is that between the epidemic and the costs of cutting the US off from the Russian resources parts of the US economy depends on, and showing every government in Latin America, Africa, and Asia that their sovereignty depends on getting off of SWIFT, the US has shot itself in the foot it is trying to put down forcefully.

Sure, the US is never going to directly target Japan with sanctions (as long as the Japanese government never directly offends it, that is) but the 'friendly fire' keeps costing the Japanese people a lot.

I just think 'war' and 'invasion' are morally diferent......

Secretary of State Blinken has already been fully embarrassed and outplayed by the Chinese more than once.

Maybe send someone else next time.

Doesn't matter who they send, the numbers add up to China having the winning hand, and KNOWING it.

Even if Biden forced the EU and UK and Australia and Japan to go along with America cutting itself off from China as well as Russia, that doesn't match China's DOMESTIC market, and when you add in home prestigious that would make having a Chinese cell phone, computer, or clothing to the people of the US etc, well, China won't have to do anything other than simply keep existing and mass producing consumer goods to win.