{"id":6493,"date":"2021-11-03T18:20:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T18:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6493"},"modified":"2021-11-03T18:20:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T18:20:03","slug":"the-neglected-agency-at-the-center-of-bidens-china-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6493","title":{"rendered":"The Neglected Agency at the Center of Biden\u2019s China Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;The Commerce Department\u2019s role and responsibilities have grown in size and complexity, while its capabilities and resources have not. This shift reflects the nature of the competition with China (and one of the reasons the analogy to a \u201cnew Cold War\u201d is flawed): Economic security and advantages in non-military technology have outsize importance compared to traditional military strength. That\u2019s still crucial, of course, but much of the day-to-day contest happens in the arena of commerce. Just as other departments, like Treasury and Homeland Security, have been revamped and restructured as their relevance to national security grew, the Biden administration needs to reform the Commerce Department\u2019s resources, structure and authorities if its China strategy is to succeed.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/10\/05\/biden-china-strategy-commerce-department-515134\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/10\/05\/biden-china-strategy-commerce-department-515134<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Commerce Department\u2019s role and responsibilities have grown in size and complexity, while its capabilities and resources have not. This shift reflects the nature of the competition with China (and one of the reasons the analogy to a \u201cnew Cold War\u201d is flawed): Economic security and advantages in non-military technology have outsize importance compared to traditional military strength. That\u2019s still crucial, of course, but much of the day-to-day contest happens in the arena of commerce. Just as other departments, like Treasury and Homeland Security, have been revamped and restructured as their relevance to national security grew, the Biden administration needs to reform the Commerce Department\u2019s resources, structure and authorities if its China strategy is to succeed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[617,89,1195,217,272,355,314,780,226],"class_list":["post-6493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bureaucracy","tag-china","tag-commerce-department","tag-economics","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-joe-biden","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6494,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions\/6494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}