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Breaking news and analysis on US-China relations, including trade war, talks, and tensions between Washington and Beijing.
Latest US protectionist moves targeting Chinese steel and aluminium imports, together with other measures, risk another damaging round of trade war.
Two Republican critics of Biden’s China policy have called for a strategy similar to Ronald Reagan’s approach to the Soviet Union. Despite building regional alliances, the Biden administration has shied away from resurrecting free trade negotiations with allies and partners in Asia.
Disinformation campaigns waged by China and Russia fan misperceptions amid years-long ‘drumbeat of very negative information’, says Kurt Campbell.
America’s top envoy pledges to continue raising atrocities with responsible governments days before he is expected to meet senior officials in Beijing.
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump sought to blame President Joe Biden for legislation that would force the sale of social media platform TikTok, even though he attempted to ban the company himself when in office.
Despite its attempts to woo back foreign investment, China has yet to see a hoped-for return of overseas capital as enterprises express hesitation to jump back into the fray.
Secretary for Justice Paul Lam says government can invite more people to Hong Kong to assuage any fears about the city’s legal system.
BNP Paribas marks its re-entry into China’s market with hires, at a time when Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan have all made rounds of job cuts in Hong Kong and China
‘No government in its right mind’ would want China’s collapse, but what China and the US want from each other is unlikely to materialise ‘any time soon’, warns David Lampton, China watcher since the times of Deng Xiaoping.
China’s trade promotion body CCPIT calls move ‘discriminatory’, blames ‘lack of competitiveness’ for US shipping industry downturn.
The US-based general counsel for TikTok and ByteDance has led years-long talks with the American government meant to stave off national security concerns about the app’s connections to China.
ByteDance, the Beijing-based owner of the popular short-video app, would be forced to sell it within a year if the measure passes the Senate.
Meetings with Foreign Minister Wang Yi expected to cover unfair trade practices and industrial overcapacity in ‘productive and constructive’ trip.
China has ‘never issued empty promises’ and Pacific island states have the right to choose their cooperation partners, Foreign Minister Wang Yi tells reporters in Papua New Guinea
Admiral Stephen Koehler will lead US delegation to symposium hosted by PLA Navy in and is expected to meet “Chinese counterparts”, diplomatic sources tell the Post.
Beijing will feel ‘inconvenient’ as Washington steps up trilateral military cooperation to stem Pyongyang threats, expert says.
William Lai Ching-te’s ministerial team is expected to show Lai has no desire to alter cross-strait status quo: analysts.
The initiative, launched under then-president Donald Trump, was intended to fight espionage by Beijing, but was slammed as racist and trigger-happy.
Special envoy Li Hui’s latest mission to Europe was met with scepticism, and could be seen as ‘signalling’ to the Global South that China is a responsible power.
‘By restricting housing based on Chinese domicile, Florida is unlawfully restricting housing for Chinese people,’ a lawyer for the plaintiffs contends.
Next week’s iteration of the annual joint exercise will be the biggest and a clear signal to Beijing, observers say.
Announcement comes as US city’s mayor, London Breed, nears the end of a weeklong trip to China and just days before US secretary of state is expected in Beijing.
‘Uncertainty’ sparked by election of William Lai as president may worsen if Trump returns to power, article in Taiwan affairs journal warns.
Chinese regulatory authorities had ordered the removal of those two apps over national security concerns, according to Apple.
China has revealed hefty penalties on imports from the US of an acid used as a preservative as trade relations between the two countries appear likely to return to an outwardly acrimonious track.
A total of 38 artefacts from the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties have been returned at a handover ceremony.
Commercial ties between China and the Middle East are enjoying a revival as politics, energy transition and supply-chain upheavals create opportunities for Chinese exporters, according to management consultancy Oliver Wyman.
World’s foremost index provider alone channelled US$3.7 billion into entities boosting People’s Liberation Army, says congressional report.
The US has floated the prospect of higher duties on Chinese steel and aluminium just days before Blinken is expected in Beijing.
At a G7 foreign ministers meeting in Italy, a US official said China is ‘contributing to Russia’s ability to prosecute’ the Ukraine war in ways that threaten all of Europe.