Blinken: US, China in Competition to ‘Shape What Comes Next’

The United States must work with its allies to overcome communist China’s attempts to remake the international order, according to America’s top diplomat. The United States must invest in domestic industries and work with its allies to approach all dealings with China “from a position of strength,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a talk at the Brookings Institution think tank on July 1. “We are at a point where the post-Cold War era is over, and there is a race and a competition on to shape what comes next,” Mr. Blinken said. Mr. Blinken added that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seeks to displace the United States and establish itself as “the dominant country in the international system” economically, diplomatically, and militarily....