Jake Sullivan, Bidens national security pick says the U.S. should encourage “Chinas rise.”

“We need to strike a middle course – one that encourages China’s rise in a manner consistent with an open, fair, rules-based, regional order,” Sullivan said.

“This will require care and prudence and strategic foresight, and maybe even more basically it will require sustained attention. It may not have escaped your notice that these are not in ample supply in Washington right now.”

Sullivan even talked down on Europe for not doing as much as the U.S., “which is doing everything we can to both facilitate and encourage China’s economic rise and to support it because a thriving China is good for Europe, it’s good for the United States, it’s good for Asia.”

Sullivan also added “But that the same time, to be clear about the parameters within which China is rising and I worry that the Europeans have basically allowed the United States to do that bit of it without really doing it so much themselves.”

“It needs to be about our ties to the region that create an environment more conducive to a peaceful and positive-sum Chinese rise,” he said.