Biden's China strategy 'detrimental' as 'international system is breaking down,' experts say

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The Biden administration’s policy of trying to play friendly with China has yielded few material gains, and the U.S. has failed to capitalize upon what little concessions it has gotten, experts told Fox News Digital.

"The one thing that we've got is time," Gordon Chang, Gatestone Institute senior fellow and China expert, explained. "The United States is not ready to defend itself and its allies and partners, and by appeasing China we have bought a little bit of time.

"Biden has bought time, and the Pentagon has done nothing. It hasn’t done as much as it’s needed to do, so we have wasted time. … Apart from that, I don’t think we’ve gotten very much.

"Clearly, the United States is no longer deterring China as we once did, so this is the time to change a policy that has worked but is no longer sufficient in today’s setting."

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President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2022 held their first face-to-face meeting since Biden took office while attending the G-20 summit in Indonesia. Last year, Xi visited the U.S. for the first time since 2018 and met with Biden in San Francisco on the sidelines of the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference.

Xi and Biden agreed to military-to-military communications and aggressively tackle the manufacture and distribution of fentanyl, which