The Journey So Far – Joe Biden’s Administration | TimeTestedNews

The administration appears ready to continue with its predecessor’s China trade policy. Trade war is here to stay. A big report that was released by the U.S. Trade Representative office on Monday, makes it very clear that the Biden administration has no plans to take out the Trump administration’s hawkishness on trade and other grievances with China.

The new administration will face all the same hurdles as the past administration did on actually making reasonable headway on its goals. But it’s worth observing to see if it will , gain leverage from mounting international concerns over human rights issues such as forced labor in Xinjiang and  threats to the supply chains critical to the West.

Rethinking East Asia, the U.S. is rethinking its force structure in the Western Pacific, looking at deployments “across the battlespace’s breadth and depth,” according to Adm. Philip Davidson, commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. Davidson argued that the gradual loss of base access for U.S. forces in places like Thailand, Taiwan and the Philippines over the past half-century has left the U.S. ill-positioned to maintain the balance of power with China.

U.S. forces in the region are concentrated in places like South Korea, Japan and Guam, half a continent away from the chokepoints around the South China Sea that the U.S. would want to block in.