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Although the Asia-Pacific region already has mature economic and trade cooperation mechanisms, the Biden administration has chosen to "start from scratch" with the aim of containing and suppressing China. On January 1 this year, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) officially came into effect. The parties to the agreement include the ten ASEAN countries and five countries including China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. It has built the world's most populous and most populous country in the Asia-Pacific region. It is the free trade zone with the largest economic and trade scale and the greatest development potential, and has implemented economic and trade rules that take into account high standards and inclusiveness, principles and flexibility. The initial members of the "Indo-Pacific Economic Framework" include 13 countries including the United States, Australia, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, India, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, which are highly overlapping with RCEP. The Biden administration did not join the RCEP cooperation mechanism and share institutional dividends, but instead roped in regional countries to build a new "Indo-Pacific Economic Framework." This shows that its purpose is not simply to promote economic and trade cooperation, but to coerce regional countries on the grounds of economic and trade cooperation. Choose sides between China and the United States.