{"id":29734,"date":"2020-12-04T16:43:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T00:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29734"},"modified":"2020-12-04T16:43:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T00:43:18","slug":"biden-says-china-must-play-by-international-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29734","title":{"rendered":"Biden says China must play by &#8216;international norms&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ibzzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqygmdycv_qnwmggswstmfnpmwvvgv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ibzzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqygmdycv_qnwmggswstmfnpmwvvgv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607210917780000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHvowEbS3cSwK2JqtCgBGanq5j00g\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0said on Thursday that China must play by \u201cinternational norms\u201d when speaking about possible retaliatory action against the country for mishandling the coronavirus pandemic when it first broke out.<\/p>\n<p>During Biden and Vice President-elect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mtbsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcwndcpt_qnwmggswstmfnpmwvvgv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mtbsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcwndcpt_qnwmggswstmfnpmwvvgv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607210917780000&amp;usg=AFQjCNELNiDc0y5btrcGgkmX99e3EDdt7w\">Kamala Harris<\/a>&#8216;s first joint interview since wining the election, CNN host\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/gktnsjwqmccdfjfcdkrmmdnnmwdpcwchhtmqjlpcwrtcmr_qnwmggswstmfnpmwvvgv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/gktnsjwqmccdfjfcdkrmmdnnmwdpcwchhtmqjlpcwrtcmr_qnwmggswstmfnpmwvvgv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607210917780000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFjPFHjOOTu70rTxreeKXEZXW5AkA\">Jake Tapper<\/a>\u00a0asked the pair if China should be \u201cpunished\u201d for mishandling and hiding information on the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in Wuhan. Biden has said that he will not immediately lift the tariffs on China that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/etbpjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwrdbhrqh_qnwmggswstmfnpmwvvgv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/etbpjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwrdbhrqh_qnwmggswstmfnpmwvvgv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607210917780000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGAL9OP8U3K24_o9XbwekRpJFFcHg\">President Trump<\/a>\u00a0put in place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president&#8217;s approach to China has been backwards,\u201d said Biden. \u201cI met with [President] Xi [Jinping] more times than anybody had up until the time we left office that I\u2019m aware of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden said his goal would be to make it \u201creal clear to China there are international rules that if you want to play by, we&#8217;ll play with you. If you don&#8217;t, we&#8217;re not going to play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s not about punishing them for COVID virus; it&#8217;s about insisting that there be international norms that are established that they play by,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said that he would insist on stopping the theft of national secrets and \u201cartificial intelligence capacity.\u201d He added that the requirement on tech companies to have 51 percent of their partners be Chinese in order to conduct business in the country was \u201cnot going to happen in our administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris appeared to be more reluctant to make any definite statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0said on Thursday that China&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29735,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29734\/revisions\/29735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}