[Central News Agency] In order to more effectively respond to China's challenges and control the competition between the United States and China, the US State Department announced today the establishment of the China Coordination Office.
According to reports, the office replaces the China Coordination Office under the previous East Asia Bureau, with a scale of about 60 to 70 people, led by Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia and the Pacific Hua Ziqiang.
The Biden administration released its first national security strategy in mid-October, viewing the next 10 years as a critical period for U.S.-China competition.
In response to this challenge, the U.S. State Department announced today through a press release the establishment of the Office of China Coordination, which was inaugurated by Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
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The State Department stated that the new office, informally known as "China House", is an important part of Blinken's State Department's modernization plan; vision of a global international system.
The State Department pointed out that China is the "most complex and causal" geopolitical challenge for the United States. Blinken is committed to ensuring that the State Department has the talents, tools and resources needed to successfully implement US policies and strategies toward China; and the modernization of the State Department promoted by Blinken The plan is to equip the State Department with the resources it needs to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities of the next decade.
The State Department quoted Blinken as saying that the new office will gather Chinese experts inside and outside the State Department, and they will work side by side with colleagues in regional bureaus and experts in international security, economics, technology, multilateral diplomacy, and strategic communication to serve the entire State Department.
According to an earlier exclusive report by the US news website Politico, the China Coordination Office will replace the previous "China Coordination Office" (China Desk) under the East Asia Bureau of the State Council. Other U.S. government agencies on economic policy.
The report pointed out that the new office will be led by Rick Waters, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia and the Pacific, and will report to Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Daniel Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary for Asia and the Pacific; there will be three main teams under it, Focus on traditional bilateral affairs, strategic communication and China's overseas actions respectively.
An unnamed senior State Department official told Politico: "The scale, complexity, and stakes of China's challenge are so great that we need to think, collaborate, organize, and act differently than we can rely on bilateral communication alone." (Editor: Xu Ruicheng) 1111217