“Xi Jinping has done what no one else in the world can accomplish: He’s brought Republicans and Democrats together,” said Anja Manuel, a former State Department official and China scholar who directs the Aspen Strategy Group. “For any administration, there isn’t that much room to maneuver. The country has turned hawkish on China.”…

A senior Biden administration official said that what’s often perceived as Biden continuing the Trump policy is merely the U.S. standing up for its interests and holding China to account.

“If you want to say that’s similar to what the prior administration did, in some respects that’s fair,” the senior official said. “But the key difference is our emphasis on allies and partners, so that we are not doing this alone.”