{"id":9728,"date":"2023-01-10T18:15:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T18:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9728"},"modified":"2023-01-10T18:15:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T18:15:44","slug":"biden-launches-china-house-to-counter-beijings-growing-clout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9728","title":{"rendered":"Biden launches \u2018China House\u2019 to counter Beijing\u2019s growing clout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The Biden administration..launched \u201cChina House,\u201d the centerpiece of its effort to strengthen its diplomatic heft in its global rivalry with Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The State Department-based unit is designed to eliminate silos among sometimes redundant government bodies, giving U.S. officials from within State and beyond a central clearinghouse to share information and shape policy on China, State officials told POLITICO&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;China House \u2014 formally known as the Office of China Coordination \u2014 replaces the China Desk in the State Department\u2019s East Asian and Pacific Affairs bureau. The new entity will employ roughly 60 to 70 personnel, including liaisons from other parts of the department such as the Africa and Latin America bureaus, as well as people detailed from other U.S. departments and agencies who may focus on topics such as technology or economic policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe sheer scale, scope, complexity and stakes of the China challenge required us to think, collaborate, organize and act differently,\u201d a senior State Department official said. \u201cIt could not be managed alone through the bilateral desk approach.\u201d The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussion involved sensitive diplomatic matters.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/12\/16\/biden-china-house-beijing-00074262\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/12\/16\/biden-china-house-beijing-00074262<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Biden administration..launched \u201cChina House,\u201d the centerpiece of its effort to strengthen its diplomatic heft in its global rivalry with Beijing.<br \/>\nThe State Department-based unit is designed to eliminate silos among sometimes redundant government bodies, giving U.S. officials from within State and beyond a central clearinghouse to share information and shape policy on China, State officials told POLITICO&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China House \u2014 formally known as the Office of China Coordination \u2014 replaces the China Desk in the State Department\u2019s East Asian and Pacific Affairs bureau. The new entity will employ roughly 60 to 70 personnel, including liaisons from other parts of the department such as the Africa and Latin America bureaus, as well as people detailed from other U.S. departments and agencies who may focus on topics such as technology or economic policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sheer scale, scope, complexity and stakes of the China challenge required us to think, collaborate, organize and act differently,\u201d a senior State Department official said. \u201cIt could not be managed alone through the bilateral desk approach.\u201d The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussion involved sensitive diplomatic matters.&#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":[89,390,272,355,314,780],"class_list":["post-9728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-diplomacy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9728","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=9728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9729,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9728\/revisions\/9729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}