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With Formation of New Axis, China Has Critical Choice to Make, Says White House

China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran have been called a new ‘axis.’
With Formation of New Axis, China Has Critical Choice to Make, Says White House
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Aug. 29, 2024. Adek Berry/AFP via Getty Images
Catherine Yang
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National security adviser Jake Sullivan has said that with the emerging “alignment of autocracies” as the world takes sides in the Russian–Ukraine war, China faces a defining moment in cementing how the world will view it. If it takes the “darker path,” he said, it will no longer have a way forward as the world’s second-largest economy.

“China has a choice to make,” Sullivan said on Dec. 17 in a conversation with Eurasia Group and GZERO Media President Ian Bremmer at the 92NY in New York City. “It can either continue to tighten those links militarily, diplomatically ... [or] end up in a circumstance where it is really part of an axis.

Catherine Yang
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Catherine Yang has been with The Epoch Times in New York since 2008. She also launched and previously served as chief editor of American Essence magazine and Epoch Health.