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  U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's transition process, which has been stalled due to President Donald Trump's dissatisfaction and the delay in the process at the Federal Office, has barely started. President Trump tweeted on the 23rd (local time) that "For the best interests of the nation, I advised GSA Commissioner Emily Murphy and his team to do what they had to do about the initial protocol, and told my team to do the same." According to CNN and the media outlet The Hill, Murphy sent a letter to Biden on the same day to the effect that he could use federal resources to hand over the presidency. Under the U.S. Presidential Transition Act, the GSA should confirm the president-elect after the presidential election and provide the necessary human and material resources for the transition. However, Murphy has been delaying his confirmation. As he delayed confirming his election, Biden was unable to access information such as national security briefings and presidential

Chinese experts rated Blinken, 58, a former deputy secretary of state who was nominated as the first secretary of state in the Joe Biden administration, relatively favorably. They say it can help improve U.S.-China relations because it is more predictable than the Donald Trump administration and Secretary of State Mike Pompeii. Hong Kong's South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Monday quoted experts as calling Blinken's nominee "a person who can work together in a warm and practical manner." It also predicted such personnel changes as "a positive move for China." "China expects someone to deal with the U.S.-China relationship in a sensible way that suits U.S. interests," said Jia Qingguo, director of the Institute of International Relations at Beijing University. "If things go on in this way, there are many things the U.S. can do with China." Lu Xiang, a U.S. expert at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, also told SCMP, "Blingen is n

With Democratic candidate Joe Biden declaring victory four days after the U.S. presidential election, China is also widely expected to continue the U.S. "bashing China." Biden said during the campaign that he would maintain a similar stance toward China as the previous administration, although he put forward a foreign policy that was different from the Donald Trump administration. The possibility that the U.S. checkpoints against China will disappear or weaken is slim due to the change of the regime and the inauguration of a new Biden administration through the upcoming presidential election.