Photo: Reuters

Topic

US-China relationsi

Breaking news and analysis on US-China relations, including trade war, talks, and tensions between Washington and Beijing.

Advertisement

Unlike previously successful empires including the British imperial state, debt and deficit – rather than economic and productive might – drive the present-day US empire instead of its decline.

  • Frank Jannuzi says Hong Kong should celebrate what makes the city special to convince Americans that it is different from the rest of China
  • Veteran China watcher was East Asia policy director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1997 to 2012

As more details emerge related to US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s coming trip to China, signs indicate excess capacity in sectors like electric vehicles will be a major sticking point in trade discussions.

videocam

Washington has asked countries with US business interests to avoid selling sensitive tech-related gear to China, and analysts say it would take China a while to develop its own advanced chips industry.

Advertisement
Advertisement

In 2018, Lieberman was hired by Chinese telecoms company ZTE as it tried to fend off US national security concerns. He died in New York after complications from a fall, his family said.

‘Excess capacity poses risks not only to American workers and firms and to the global economy, but also to productivity and growth in the Chinese economy,’ Yellen says.

videocam

Asia should guard against being ‘testing grounds for parallel systems’, says Liu Jianchao, who is tipped to be China’s next foreign minister.

videocam

The Federal Trade Commission has been looking into allegations the popular social media app failed to live up to an agreement aimed at protecting children’s privacy.

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.

videocam

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son, in Washington for meetings with senior US officials, says his nation ‘can have good relations with all major powers’ and that Vietnam president’s ouster will not be destabilising.

videocam

China has lodged a grievance against US electric vehicle subsidies at the World Trade Organization, alleging ‘discrimination’ in selective treatment for products depending on the venue of their final assembly.

videocam

Long Yongtu tells the Boao Forum for Asia that ‘globalised economic and trade systems are at stake’, and targeting Chinese companies in Mexico would mean higher prices for Americans.

Taiwan launched its newly renovated pier on Taiping islet in the disputed South China Sea on Tuesday but Tsai Ing-wen’s absence was noted by the opposition.

videocam

Manila cannot win on its own, and the US is not interested in getting directly involved, South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative says in latest annual report.

videocam

Two students and a professor said the measure was reminiscent of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which instituted a 10-year ban on Chinese labourers immigrating to the US.

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.

House Speaker Mike Johnson chooses Representative John Moolenaar, Republican of Michigan, to head committee after its chair, Mike Gallagher, announces he will leave Congress on April 19.