Saving The US From China

This is how it's done:

1. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces in a speech on May 26 a plan that "includes building a China house: a departmentwide integrated team that will coordinate and implement our policy across issues and regions, working with Congress as needed.” No specifics on personnel or policy are given. More state department staffers would be needed to monitor Chinese relations with other countries as well as emerging technologies and climate change.

Download Hi-res

Michael S. Chase is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for China

2. The formation by Biden of a defense department "task force" to evaluate US policy and strategy in countering Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific area. 

3. The adoption of more effective alliances with allies in the Pacific. Taiwan and Japan have been critical components of this effort. Efforts are already underway to counter Chinese attempts to become players in the South Pacific.

4. Michael Pillsbury, one-time adviser on Chinese affairs to the Trump administration and now the head of Chinese study at the Hudson Institute advocates a more unified approach to policy, organized so that the Pentagon no longer sends conflicting signals to China.

5. Congressional Republicans have formed a group of their own to monitor and coordinate response to Chinese activity.

Of course, it remains to be seen if an increase in bureaucrats and bureaucratic activity will result in the wilting of Chinese influence in the world.