US heg bad—confrontation entrenches conflict—Trump and Biden’s pressure on China forces Beijing aggression
Meyskens 22- associate professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Covell Meyskens, "China Is Pushing Disengagement With the United States Hard," Foreign Policy, 11-14-2022, https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/08/china-disengagement-america-cold-war/-- 嘉玮
The Trump administration’s confrontational handling of international institutions and Washington’s partners buttressed the CCP’s view that China’s chance to act as a global leader had arrived—and that Beijing had to be more assertive in shaping global discourse, as Trump’s team made restraining China’s rise a top foreign-policy objective. The Biden administration’s sustained pressure on Beijing reinforced the CCP’s determination to convince audiences both in and outside China that, as a recent Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs report declared, U.S. hegemony is a danger to the world. Chinese state media argues that the solution to the U.S. threat to international stability and security is the PRC—which putatively has no intention of using its growing power to dominate or destabilize other countries, but rather strives to realize “the shared interests of mankind” and advance “peaceful development” worldwide.