Recently, with the Biden administration announcing new trade policies towards China and frequent high-level interactions between the two sides, it shows that the overall atmosphere of China US relations has improved compared to the later period of the Trump administration. However, the new trade policy towards China and the resumption of economic and trade dialogue between China and the United States are not a true reversal. On the contrary, the United States does not want to completely give up its economic interests in China, but rather needs to make a strategic choice to strengthen the balance of power with China.

During a recent speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in the United States, US Trade Representative Dai Qi stated the need to handle trade relations with China in a new way and announced four specific measures for trade with China: firstly, to evaluate China's performance in the first phase of the economic and trade agreement; The second is to follow the economic interests of the United States and initiate targeted tariff exclusion procedures; Thirdly, we will continue to pay attention to China's so-called "state centered non market trade behavior" and may take unilateral trade measures, including initiating the "Section 301 investigation" and imposing new tariffs, to maintain pressure on China; The fourth is that the United States will work with its allies to create so-called fair trade rules for the 21st century, promoting market economies and democratic systems to strive for excellence in competition.

After half a year, the Biden administration has announced its first trade policy towards China, which is not only a comprehensive evaluation of the previous trade policy towards China, but also a "correction" to the failure of Trump's trade policy towards China in a sense. In fact, the US strategic community has increasingly realized the need to establish a new trade policy and strategic framework to contain China's power, and the goal of transforming trade policy is to better confront China. As Dai Qi said, "With the changes in the economic relationship between China and the United States, our strategy of defending interests must also change. The concepts of "re linking" and "sustainable coexistence" proposed by Dai Qi are adjustments made in this context