10:00ET/15:00BST: Sec State Blinken To Deliver China Strategy Speech

At the top of the hour, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to deliver his long anticipated speech outlining the official China strategy of the Biden Administration.

• Details and livestream of the speech here: https://www.state.gov/secretary-blinken-to-deliver...
• The strategy is likely to focus on the fortification of regional alliances in Asia to operate as a counterbalance to the rise of China. These include the Indo-Pacific strategy, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, ASEAN, and the Quad - the security dialogue between the US, Japan, Australia, and India (South Korea pending) which met this week.
• A senior administration official: '[The speech] offers a public encapsulation of the approach the administration has pursued over the last 15 months.'
• Blinken is expected to use the speech to warn that the rise of China represents an existential threat to the rules based order.
• The official continued: 'We are competing with China over the trajectory of international order in the 21st century. China is a country that has the intention as well as the economic, technological, military and diplomatic means to advance a different vision of international order.'