WASHINGTON: An undeniably amazing China is testing the world request, acting "all the more oppressively" and "all the more forcefully" as it flexes its impact, US secretary of state Antony Blinken said in a meeting that circulated Sunday.
"What we've seen throughout the most recent quite a while is China acting all the more harshly at home and all the more forcefully abroad. That is true," the top American ambassador said in a meeting with CBS's "hour."
His remarks came after President Joe Biden, in his first location to Congress on Wednesday, highlighted that he was not looking for struggle with Beijing.
Biden said he revealed to Chinese President Xi Jinping that in the opposition to be the predominant force of the 21st century, "we invite the opposition - and that we are not searching for struggle."
Blinken said China is "the one country on the planet that has the military, financial, strategic ability to subvert or challenge the principles based request that we care such a great amount about and are resolved to protect.
"In any case, I need to be exceptionally clear about something... our motivation isn't to contain China, to keep it down, to hold it down; it is to maintain this standards based request that China is representing a test to."
Strains have risen strongly with China in the course of recent years as the United States additionally disagrees with Beijing's self-assured military moves and basic freedoms concerns, including what Washington has portrayed as slaughter against the for the most part Muslim Uyghur minority.