Blinken's remarks on China ring hollow, will not convince anyone

In his interview with CBS News' 60 Minutes aired on Sunday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that "our purpose is not to contain China, to hold it back, to keep it down". While such messages from the US are welcome, they don't match the deeds of the incumbent administration, because US President Joe Biden and his officials continue to follow the Donald Trump administration's anti-China policies.

Perhaps Blinken's message was an attempt to coax the G7 member states' officials he met this week in the United Kingdom into an anti-China alliance that Washington has long dreamed of forming. But most G7 countries, despite being close US security allies, don't support the US' approach of "decoupling" with China and triggering a "new Cold War".

If the Biden administration's goal is not to contain China, why does it continue to impose Trump's absurd punitive tariffs on Chinese goods, despite the Washington-based US-China Business Council saying in January that the tariffs have caused a peak loss of 245,000 American jobs and would cause an additional loss of 145,000 jobs by 2025?