White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan Analyzes China Policy

“That to me, I think there is a viable answer, which is a government-to-government agreement that establishes effective and transparent protection of equipment, value models and capabilities, and that’s what we’ve been working on in our website. MOU (memorandum of understanding) with the United Arab Emirates, and I believe that this is a long-term model of having strong technological cooperation with that country, as well as with other countries, which provides The United States is an economic and strategic group. advantages, where the alternative is to introduce them to the orbit of Chinese technology, which we do not want. “

About the types of trade agreements Asian countries are looking for:

“The countries that are wanted, as far as I can see, have become more and more numerous. It’s not just about some kind of free market access. This is a special need for a country thinking about its economic model for the future. And so the economic dialogue that we have with these countries and the attractiveness of the United States is much more than: Can we lower the barriers to market access? “

“So let me give you a few examples. With Japan, they really wanted the mining MOU to have a path to IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) benefits. That’s their first type of question, more important to them than the broader business deal. With Indonesia, it’s the same. This is what Indonesia wants. Basically, they want to make a standardized and standardized mining contract so that Indonesian nickel flows to the production of American electric cars, batteries and so on. other countries. “

While American workers and industries have benefited from previous free trade agreements:

“So where did the workers come into it? Now you can say, the staff is compatible. They will get cheap goods, and that’s good for them and, in a way, it’s true, so I’m not against free trade. But you have to have an element of theory about how to maintain the American industrial base, the opportunity to build here, and that’s why I think about things like the IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) and contracts. on mineral resources with Japan. a more rational way to think about free trade moving forward. “

On what Mr. Sullivan learned from his meetings with Mr. Xi and Mr. Wang:

“The biggest thing that jumps out at me is from the meeting with Xi — and it was reinforced by the meeting that President Biden had with Xi, and especially the meeting with Wang Yi as well, but it was noted – that’s mine, but when we came to power, the Chinese view was: If you are going to compete with us, we will not have a line of communication. We cannot have both You have to choose we just stuck to our theory, which is managed competition: We will compete, compete hard, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t look for areas to work together where there is mutual interest at the time we are competing together. And, to compete for responsibility, we must have relationships at all levels, including military-to-military relations.”

“As we leave, the PRC (People’s Republic of China), at least for now, has taken over, not in the way of talking, but in the way of managing the relationship, managing the competition. We found areas to work together: on drug resistance, AI, nuclear risk and climate. We have had a long-standing relationship, including a military relationship, and we compete, of course we compete fiercely, but there is still an element of stability in the relationship so we are not on the verge of going downhill now. This is a significant evolution over the past four years in terms of how we manage relations between the two sides, and is in line with our principles of relationship management that the PRC has now faced. “