Sino-US relations

Chinese President Xi Jinping (front left) and US President Barack Obama (front right) stressed the need to strengthen the bilateral relationship. Photo: Reuters

Trump’s shadow looms at last meeting between Xi and Obama

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama have stressed the importance of a “smooth transition” in bilateral ties amid unprecedented uncertainty over Donald Trump’s election victory.

21 Nov 2016 - 9:46am 4

US Army Pacific commander General Robert Brown (left), and General Liu Xiaowu (second left), the PLA commander of the Chinese southern military region, watch soldiers conducting a rescue operation during the humanitarian relief military drill in Kunming on Friday. Photo: AP

China, US look past tensions with joint humanitarian relief drill

18 Nov 2016 - 10:08pm

Sailors from the US Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan man the rails upon arrival in 2015 at the US Navy’s Yokosuka base, south of Tokyo, as US flag-shaped balloons are hoisted to welcome them. Photo: AP

Trump’s era may bring China more bad news than good

16 Nov 2016 - 8:41pm 2

Chinese buyers are likely to remain enamoured with US residential real estate, with New York to retain its appeal. Photo: AFP

Donald Trump hasn’t derailed Chinese homebuyers’ obsession with US real estate

15 Nov 2016 - 8:01pm

Cui Tiankai points to mutual benefits from Sino-US relationship

China looks to forging effective partnership with Trump administration, says ambassador

13 Nov 2016 - 11:17pm 3

President-elect Donald Trump gives his acceptance speech during his election night rally on Wednesday, to applause from Vice-President-elect Mike Pence. Photo: AP

Chinese scholars look to a Trump administration with hope and concern

11 Nov 2016 - 11:24pm 3

A worker at the Yangshan deep water port in the Shanghai free trade zone. Photo: Reuters

With the election over, US and Chinese leaders should get back to business

10 Nov 2016 - 2:25pm 1

Chinese President Xi Jinping is seen on a screen touring a 737-800 aircraft at the Boeing assembly line in Everett, Washington, during a state visit to the US in September last year. The US understands China’s desire to reform global institutions that reflects its increasing footprint in the global economy and global security architecture. Photo: AFP

Under Donald Trump, the US will accept China’s rise – as long as it doesn’t challenge the status quo

10 Nov 2016 - 7:26pm 26

Tom Plate says far from being a force for good, Sino-US interdependence is raising fears of knock-on instability

How China and the US are spooking each other with their politics

7 Nov 2016 - 6:32pm 3

It might be complicated, but experts say it’s too important to ignore or damage

How the China-US relationship evolved, and why it still matters

7 Nov 2016 - 8:02am 2

Performers hold up the Taiwan flag during a flag-raising ceremony in Taipei. Cross-strait ties have deteriorated since Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen took office. Photo: AFP

Beijing should be more flexible with Taiwan or face blame if cross-strait ties worsen, says former US diplomat

2 Nov 2016 - 11:00pm 29

Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, met US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing on Saturday. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Wang Yi tells US to ‘properly handle ties’ ahead of presidential polls

30 Oct 2016 - 11:43pm 8

Visiting Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and President Xi Jinping attend a signing ceremony in Beijing. Photo: AP

Just how far can the new friendship between China and the Philippines go?

26 Oct 2016 - 8:33pm 3

Tom Plate considers the changing geopolitical order in the region – brought home by Manila and Beijing becoming fast friends – as China’s ascendency continues

Duterte’s ‘pivot’ to China offers a reminder that all Asian diplomacy should be guided by subtlety and care

24 Oct 2016 - 7:01pm 4

Analysts say there are plenty of examples of candidates changing their tune once they become US president

Is Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal really as dead as Trump and Clinton say it is?

21 Oct 2016 - 10:34pm 8

Some internet users view controversial Republican nominee as their ‘missing spokesman’

Trump’s fans in China are sticking with him despite lewd remarks

14 Oct 2016 - 9:25pm

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made the comments during a speech to Goldman Sachs, according to Wikileaks. Photo: AFP

If Beijing can claim South China Sea, US can call Pacific ‘American Sea’, says Clinton in leaked speech

13 Oct 2016 - 11:16pm 39

Patrick Mendis and Sheng Cui say the Sino-US trade partnership is the cornerstone of global peace and prosperity, and ask whether the two nations can take a lesson in wisdom from history to secure the future of humanity

For China and the US, bound by trade, great power brings great responsibility

11 Oct 2016 - 7:59pm 1

Familiarity and contempt: Hillary Clinton’s 21-year relationship with China

12 Oct 2016 - 1:43am 16

Americans tended to the honourable, if pedestrian, chore of pulling out destructive weeds, ministering to our allies’ spatial and nutrient requirements, and sprinkled around garden-variety plant food. Illustration: Craig Stephens

The constant gardener: why the US needs to stick to its time-tested role in Asia

10 Oct 2016 - 7:26pm 2

Chinese celebrating National Day on October 1 take photos of the dawn flag-raising ceremony at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The young adults of the 21st century, along with the technological tools at their disposal, should act as a force of checks and balances in society. Photo: AP

How the super-connected youth of China and America can build bridges

7 Oct 2016 - 7:05pm

More US lawmakers join call to look closely at Chinese takeovers

More US lawmakers join call to look closely at Chinese takeovers

7 Oct 2016 - 4:40am 5

David Lampton says the need for sober leadership that can keep Asia stable should persuade Beijing that its interests would be best served by a Clinton victory, however unpalatable it may seem

For China and the rest of Asia, a Trump presidency is too big an unknown

6 Oct 2016 - 7:15pm 3

Mark Valencia says three months after the landmark tribunal ruling against China on South China Sea issues, it is America’s presence – and welcome – in the region that is suddenly looking shaky

How the US got outplayed in the Asia-Pacific

6 Oct 2016 - 5:00pm 4

Washington needs to ‘develop answer’ to China’s flexing of economic muscle, says former state department aide to Hillary Clinton

‘Don’t ignore China’s economic coercion’: former Clinton aide’s advice to next US president

29 Sep 2016 - 11:29pm 29

Tom Plate says history is moving in the direction of China and Asia, and America would do well to favour understanding over grandstanding

US and China need more soft power, not military hardware, to resolve their differences

26 Sep 2016 - 7:07pm 4

Derwin Pereira says it matters to the region how the issues of Sino-US relations, trade and America’s security partnerships will feature in the face-off between the candidates

When Trump meets Clinton: what Asians will be looking for in the US presidential election debate

25 Sep 2016 - 4:53pm 2

Premier Li Keqiang delivers remarks during a meeting with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and US business leaders in New York this week. Photo: Reuters

Sino-US ties will stay stable ‘no matter who is elected’ as US president: China’s Premier Li Keqiang

21 Sep 2016 - 11:04pm

Tom Plate says US media and the likes of Donald Trump have made Russia’s president a hero while Xi and his China remain a somewhat unfathomable mystery

Why ‘macho’ Putin has the lead over Xi when it comes to American minds

12 Sep 2016 - 7:46pm 7

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