Trip would be the long-time leader’s first abroad since his re-election, amid Western claims that China is propping up Russia’s war effort in Ukraine.
Meetings with Foreign Minister Wang Yi expected to cover unfair trade practices and industrial overcapacity in ‘productive and constructive’ trip.
The initiative, launched under then-president Donald Trump, was intended to fight espionage by Beijing, but was slammed as racist and trigger-happy.
Legislation comes amid alarm in Washington over volume of material moving from Beijing to Moscow and said to be turning up on battlefields in Ukraine.
‘I’m not looking for a fight with China but competition, fair competition,’ the president tells cheering steelworkers in Pennsylvania.
Despite an agreement in November between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping to address the deadly drug, there is little evidence that China is committed to the effort or that it is seeing much result, experts testify.
The video call between Secretary Lloyd Austin and Admiral Dong Jun, who was appointed defence minister in December, is the latest sign of a thaw in US-China relations.
At the Harvard College China Forum, participants said existential threats such as global warming cannot be solved unless the two countries move beyond their mutual distrust.
With ties at ‘crucial juncture’, Beijing and Washington should find common ground on challenges such as climate change, AI and debt, according to leaders in business, academia and politics at annual China forum at Harvard University.
High-profile meetings are meant to convey something ‘impressive to the world community and extremely useful for the bilateral relationship’, says US analyst.
‘China’s current external stance and military actions present … the greatest strategic challenge,’ Prime Minister Fumio Kishida tells joint session of Congress.
Trilateral represents ‘new era’ of partnership, says US leader, producing security, economic and diplomatic initiatives in show of unity with Manila.
Agreements spanning defence, space, culture, diplomacy and research come amid rising Indo-Pacific tensions and Tokyo’s more robust role in the region.
US officials acknowledge foreign anxiety over whether new partnerships under Indo-Pacific strategy will last if Trump becomes president.
Joined by the Philippine president, leaders will showcase ‘support and solidarity’ for common vision of South China Sea, White House official says.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken targets those deemed ‘responsible for the intensifying crackdown on rights and freedoms’.
‘Younger people – seen as key to the outcome of the presidential election – are particularly opposed,’ said a survey analyst.
China ‘continues to use unfair, non-market policies and practices to undermine fair competition and pursue the dominance of the PRC’s manufacturers’, says US Trade Representative Katherine Tai.
According to 2023 UN data, Chinese inventors led in international patent applications for the second year running, posting some 14,000 more than the second-place US.
Congress hears plea for more funding, speed and capability to protect strategically vital American territory as PLA enhances its missile technology.
Experts issue warnings about the Chinese military build-up in the western Pacific and about expanded ties between China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.
A closer look finds East Asians significantly behind South Asians in climbing corporate rungs in the US. One difference could be that modesty, reticence and other traditional East Asian attributes are seen as weaknesses in the brash, self-promoting West.
Spousal violence can be pronounced among immigrants who are socially or culturally isolated, experts say, and there often is a stigma about seeking help.
American domestic politics should not disrupt ‘stabilising’ bilateral relations, says Qian Jin, Beijing’s number two envoy in New York.
Challenge exacerbated by loophole allowing shipments under US$800 to bypass import tariffs, most safety inspections and other oversight, witnesses say.
Beijing resumes lending bears to US zoos in a soft-power bid to improve ties with Washington.
Daniel Kritenbrink, an assistant US secretary of state, says Beijing enjoys the opportunity ‘the international order provides but … takes actions that undermine’ it.
Report by US-China Economic and Security Review Commission finds the value of roughly 256 Chinese companies on US markets slid 17.5 per cent from 2022.
The Asian-American and Pacific Islander community is surging but is comparatively late in its push to secure a museum on the National Mall in Washington. Museums dedicated to women, Latinos and LGBTQ people are also in the works as building space becomes scarce and Congress is increasingly dysfunctional.
Bilateral dialogue on automated weapons and artificial intelligence is expected to take place this spring, with parameters yet to be established.
