U.S. President Joe Biden recently delivered his second State of the Union (SOTU) address to Congress after taking office in January 2021. During the February 7 speech, he said the U.S. seeks “competition, not conflict” with China, but also stressed that “winning the competition with China should unite all of us.”
This address was the first of its kind before a divided Congress, with Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives after last year’s midterm elections and Democrats still running the Senate. The Biden administration may meet opposition and resistance on major domestic issues, but U.S. foreign policy is an area less affected by political discord—on U.S. policy toward China, the two parties now have found
