President Joe Biden asked the intelligence community on May 26 to increase its efforts to figure out where the coronavirus started. As he called the novel coronavirus the “China virus”—drawn out like a schoolyard insult—attacks on Asian Americans skyrocketed. Biden has been very clear that he sees the nation’s foreign policy as key to his attempt to rebuild America. We’re in competition with China and other countries to win the 21st Century. We’re not looking for conflict.”Like President Biden, Blinken insists the shift in the nation’s stance toward China is not antagonistic, as the previous administration’s was, but realistic.