Coming just off President Joe Biden's Asia trip, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told a George Washington University audience in a much anticipated China policy speech that the US is looking to avoid a "new Cold War" with China. But he further lambasted Beijing for undermining the global order while at the same time enriching itself at its expense.

"China's transformation... was made possible by the stability and opportunity that the international order provides," Blinken said. "Arguably no country on Earth has benefited more from that than China." He continued: "But rather than using its power to reinforce and revitalize the laws, agreements, principles, and institutions that enabled its success, so other countries can benefit from them too, Beijing is undermining it."

However, we should note that this sounds exactly like the history of American foreign and economic policy as well, or most any powerful country that seeks to benefit itself first at others' expense. But here's where Blinken took aim at the particular architecture of Chinese oppression and malfeasance both at home and abroad:

"Under President Xi [Jinping], the ruling Chinese Communist Party has become more repressive at home and more aggressive abroad."