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<\/a>By Nikki Slusher<\/strong><\/p>\nPresident Joe Biden met with U.S. lawmaker\u2019s in the Oval Office on Thursday and warned the bipartisan group of senators that China has been vigorously outpacing the United States on infrastructure. \u201cThey\u2019re investing a lot of money, they\u2019re investing billions of dollars and dealing with a whole range of issues that relate to transportation, the environment and a whole range of other things,\u201d Biden said. <\/p>\n
The information came after the president spent two hours talking to China\u2019s President Xi Jinping on Wednesday. \u201cThey have a major, major new initiative on rail and they already have rail that goes 225 miles an hour with ease,\u201d Biden explained to the Environment and Public Works committee. \u201cWe just have to step up. And so, what I\u2019d like to talk to these folks about \u2014 since they are the key committee \u2014 is how we begin this. I\u2019ve laid out what I think we should be doing,\u201d President Biden added.<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s meeting with lawmakers and the president\u2019s call with President Xi on Wednesday come after last week\u2019s address at the State Department where Biden told his plans to work more closely with our allies to initiate stronger pushback against Beijing which is currently America\u2019s \u201cmost serious competitor.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will confront China\u2019s economic abuses,\u201d the president said. The administration is also focusing efforts on addressing human rights abuses and to try mending our trade relations with the second-largest economy in the world. Tension between Beijing and Washington escalated during the Trump administration due to the heightening of our trade war and efforts to ban Chinese tech companies from conducting business in the U.S.<\/p>\n
President Biden assured Americans that the new administration is prepared for the \u201cextreme competition\u201d with China in an interview with CBS. The newly inaugurated president noted that his style will be much different from the previous administration\u2019s methods. \u201cI\u2019m not going to do it the way Trump did. We are going to focus on the international rules of the road,\u201d Biden said on Sunday. When reporters questioned the 46th President on Wednesday, they pressed on if he had any interest in punishing the world superpower on their lack of transparency over the Covid-19 pandemic last year. \u201cI\u2019m interested in getting all the facts,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke with Yang Jiechi, the director of China\u2019s Central Foreign Affairs Commission. Reports of the tense conversation said that Secretary Blinken told Director Jiechi that the U.S. intends to hold China accountable for a variety of issues, including abuses on human rights. He also called on Beijing to outright condemn the recent coup by the military in Myanmar on February 1st.<\/p>\n
The Burmese military regime responsible for the recent coup triggered the U.S. Treasury to announce new sanctions against Myanmar, specifically targeting the country\u2019s top military officials responsible for initiating the coup. President Biden also signed an executive order enabling the Treasury Department to also target these sanctions upon spouses and adult children of those who are being sanctioned.<\/p>\n
Named in the sanctions is the top military commander, Min Aung Hlaing, and his deputy Soe Win. Additionally, four members of the State Administration Council have also been listed. The Treasury\u2019s newly implemented sanctions will also prevent the generals from accessing over $1 billion of the Myanmar\u2019s government funds that are held in the U.S. Two businesses controlled by the regime will also be affected — the Myanmar Ruby Enterprise and Myanmar Imperial Jade Co., which have produced the gemstones for centuries.<\/p>\n
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