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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-xi-wants-trump-to-win/ar-AA1l1FNk

After four years of Joe Biden, China’s leaders
would likely be relieved to have Donald Trump
back in the White House.

Compared with his predecessor, Biden has
operated quietly. Trump launched a trade war;
slapped tariffs on Chinese imports; and
infuriated Beijing by referring to the
coronavirus as “the Chinese Virus,” blaming
the Chinese Communist Party for its spread,
and even at times humoring theories that the
party may have played a role in its creation.

But Biden has hit China harder than Trump
ever did. Armed with a more determined
foreign policy, he has inflicted acute damage
on the country’s economy and geopolitical
ambitions, from which China’s leader, Xi
Jinping, has struggled to recover. “A
Biden-led U.S., probably from the Chinese
perspective, looks like a more formidable
challenge,” Scott Kennedy, a senior adviser
at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies in Washington, D.C., told me.

The most telling example is Biden’s
technology policy. In 2022, his
administration effectively barred the export
to China of advanced semiconductors and the
complex equipment required to manufacture
them. The controls will likely set back
China’s hopes of building a competitive
chip industry for years and hamper its
progress in other key tech sectors, such
as artificial intelligence.

Biden has revitalized the American-led
global alliance network that had atrophied
under Trump, and has marshaled its power
to counter China. The advanced democracies
in the Group of Seven have displayed an
unusual degree of coordination on Biden’s
watch, agreeing in 2023 to a common approach
to decrease their reliance on the Chinese
economy. Biden has also fostered closer ties
with new partners, especially India, to
compete with Chinese influence in the
developing world. Biden’s success has
apparently alarmed a Chinese leadership
fearful of becoming encircled and contained
by a coalition of American allies.

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