Trump’s China policy lacks strategy and coherence: former Biden officials

Washington’s China policy lacks strategy, coherence and a clear framework in US President Donald Trump’s second term, mirroring his first, according to a former senior official in the Joe Biden administration.Former Biden officials, speaking at a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace event on Tuesday, said there was little evidence of systemic policy when they assumed power in early 2021, after Trump’s first term, a pattern that appeared to be repeating itself.“There were themes about how to compete with China,” said Laura Rosenberger, a former senior National Security Council official. “But there was no real integrated policy approach … across different arms of the US government”.The critique follows the delay in a planned summit between Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping that was meant to stabilise ties as Washington becomes increasingly focused on the war it started along with Israel against Iran.She also warned that Trump, with his unilateral bias, was again engaging in a “complete marginalising of our allies” and is, in some ways, going even further, “putting ourselves backwards in terms of our ability to harness that power”. Trump says US has requested that China delay Beijing summit by ‘a month or so’