https://www.scmp.com/rss/323325/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The United States and its allies have accused China of hacking a Microsoft email server as part of a state-backed campaign, adding to growing claims of Chinese involvement in high-profile cyberattacks. Already an issue between China and the US before their relations deteriorated, cyber espionage has become another of the fronts on which Beijing and Washington are set to confront each other in the coming years. A coalition of accusers The US, Britain, the European Union and Nato on Monday accused... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3141865/what-are-hacking-accusations-against-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3141865/what-are-hacking-accusations-against-china?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:30:15 +0000 You’ve long spoken about the “political awakenings”, from the Arab Spring to the Maidan protests in Ukraine, as a new element affecting world affairs. Now, a different form of awakening is sweeping Western democracies – populism that seems to have an affinity for Vladimir Putin. What is that about? I think the affinity for Putin is overblown, largely promoted by self-serving journalists. Certainly, some individual leaders of these movements profess admiration for his strongman approach to... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2057960/china-ties-are-too-valuable-us-throw-away-whim?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2057960/china-ties-are-too-valuable-us-throw-away-whim?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Dec 2016 02:34:56 +0000 In an interview this week, former US ambassador to China Gary Locke expressed concerns about many aspects of US president-elect Donald Trump’s possible trade and foreign policies. He said Trump had “misimpressions” about China, as evidenced by his claims it was manipulating its currency. He also called on Trump to continue America’s pivot to Asia and to push ahead with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact. Locke also expressed concerns that the US might lose its leadership role or... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2046650/former-top-us-envoy-china-gary-locke-trump-trade-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2046650/former-top-us-envoy-china-gary-locke-trump-trade-and?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Nov 2016 23:00:15 +0000 A former top US diplomat to China has called on US president-elect Donald Trump to press on with Washington’s “pivot to Asia” and to seize the “last chance” to pass a Pacific trade pact that Trump has vowed to scrap. In an exclusive interview on Wednesday with the South China Morning Post, former commerce secretary and US ambassador to Beijing Gary Locke urged Trump to make the Trans-Pacific Partnership a reality. While the next US leader had still to detail his administration’s priorities on... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2046656/trump-must-seize-last-chance-seal-tpp-deal-says-former?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2046656/trump-must-seize-last-chance-seal-tpp-deal-says-former?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Nov 2016 23:00:00 +0000 As if defusing the world’s biggest debt bomb while keeping economic growth humming wasn’t tough enough, Donald Trump’s shock election victory has just made the policy outlook even more complex for People’s Bank of China governor Zhou Xiaochuan. The president-elect’s threats to slap tariffs of up to 45 per cent on Chinese imports cast a shadow over the economy’s stabilisation and the world’s most crucial trade relationship. Protectionism may fuel more international use of the yuan, according to... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2046305/china-central-bank-has-trump-headache-amid-us-policy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2046305/china-central-bank-has-trump-headache-amid-us-policy?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 15 Nov 2016 16:15:15 +0000 Chinese state-run media lauded Donald Trump on Tuesday after a phone call between him and President Xi Jinping, saying that the president-elect’s emergence could mark a “reshaping” of Sino-American relations. The pair spoke on Monday, when Xi said that the two powers needed to co-operate and Trump’s office said the leaders “established a clear sense of mutual respect for one another”. Trump may tower over Asia, but he will have to work with China On the campaign trail Trump frequently demonised... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2046302/chinese-media-praise-trumps-experience-and-ideology?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2046302/chinese-media-praise-trumps-experience-and-ideology?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 15 Nov 2016 15:48:47 +0000 No matter what course US president-elect Donald Trump takes with China, he starts out with at least one loss in his tangles with Beijing authorities. Despite waging a long court battle, Trump failed to trademark his own name in the construction industry on the mainland. A Liaoning construction firm unrelated to Trump’s businesses beat him to the punch in November 2006, trademarking the Trump name just two weeks before the US businessman filed his own application, according to a Beijing court... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2045724/day-donald-trump-took-chinese-government-and-lost?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2045724/day-donald-trump-took-chinese-government-and-lost?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 14 Nov 2016 05:00:15 +0000 SCMP Reporter SCMP Reporter Beijing called on the incoming administration in the United States to forge an ­effective partnership in China amid uncertainty over relations between the two nations after the US presidential election. Cui Tiankai, China’s ambassador to Washington, said in an interview with CNN on the weekend that China expected a smooth transition of power in the US following Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the US presidential election last week. Trump made tough comments about China during his election... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2045571/china-looks-forging-effective-partnership-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2045571/china-looks-forging-effective-partnership-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:41:25 +0000 Securing a third term in US Congress wasn’t Grace Meng’s only goal this election season: the Democrat wanted Asian Americans to make their voices heard and vote – whether for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Meng won just under 65 per cent of the votes cast in the race for New York’s sixth district, located in Queens, and home to nearly a dozen ethnically diverse communities, including 340,000 Chinese Americans and 65,000 Korean Americans. If our voting population does not increase, it would... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2043999/why-us-congresswoman-focused-improving-asian-american?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2043999/why-us-congresswoman-focused-improving-asian-american?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 12 Nov 2016 09:29:54 +0000 The election of Donald Trump as US president could effectively put an end to the honeymoon period of Sino-US cooperation on ­climate change, which saw the world’s two largest carbon emitters formally join the Paris accord. Mainland experts said that although Trump’s victory was ­unlikely to derail China’s domestic energy and climate policies, the era of cooperation between the two nations on keeping the global temperature rise to within a safe limit was over. Watch: Obama and Trump’s first White... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044883/election-trump-curtain-has-fallen-over-sino-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044883/election-trump-curtain-has-fallen-over-sino-us?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Nov 2016 23:00:15 +0000 There is no more important economic relationship in the world than that between China and the United States. President-elect Donald Trump will have that in mind in coming days as he puts together his team to formulate and manage American foreign and trade policy. Governing is far removed from campaigning, so it cannot be said with certainty that his anti-China rhetoric so often used to win the hearts and minds of voters will be translated into a strategy and action. Only when a cabinet is in... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2044914/despite-rhetoric-trump-has-no-choice-engage-china-and-other?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2044914/despite-rhetoric-trump-has-no-choice-engage-china-and-other?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Nov 2016 16:30:58 +0000 The new administration of ­Donald Trump will not repudiate the US “pivot to Asia” strategy, and it may even strengthen the country’s military capacity and presence around the world, ­according to the president-elect’s top military advisers. The implications of Trump’s foreign and defence policy ­remain to be seen, but some ­observers have said that a Trump administration might provide strategic opportunities for China to extend its presence in Asia. Watch: Obama and Trump’s first White House... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044878/us-pivot-asia-likely-continue-smaller-scale-under-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044878/us-pivot-asia-likely-continue-smaller-scale-under-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:00:00 +0000 A top adviser to US president-elect Donald Trump has lashed out at the Obama administration’s opposition to China’s ­economic diplomacy, especially the decision to stay away from the Beijing-based Asian ­Infrastructure Investment Bank. In an opinion piece in the South China Morning Post on Friday, James Woolsey, a senior adviser to Trump on national security and intelligence, called Washington’s spurning of the China-led multilateral lender “a strategic mistake” and expected a “much warmer”... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044829/us-opposition-aiib-strategic-mistake-says-senior-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044829/us-opposition-aiib-strategic-mistake-says-senior-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Nov 2016 09:30:45 +0000 China’s official state media say Donald Trump becoming the next US president will pose an economic challenge for Beijing in areas such as trade and currency, but the general pattern of Sino-US ties will not be affected. The Liaowang Institute, a think-tank affiliated with Xinhua news agency, said in a report that, judging by the content of Trump’s presidential campaign speeches, his China policy would focus more on economic opportunities, rather than security challenges. Muzzled Chinese media... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044783/trump-presidency-poses-economic-challenge-china-sino-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044783/trump-presidency-poses-economic-challenge-china-sino-us?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:00:00 +0000 When I think about the relations of our two countries, China and America, I am reminded of the words of African American writer Audre Lorde. “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognise, accept, and celebrate those differences.” We do have our differences. Chinese leaders are most concerned with keeping the United States from challenging their country’s sovereignty and legitimacy under the present leadership. The US, however, sees the relationship mainly in terms... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2044727/election-over-us-and-chinese-leaders-should-get-back?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2044727/election-over-us-and-chinese-leaders-should-get-back?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Nov 2016 06:25:37 +0000 The United States is still, by far, the leading military force in the world. We are the only country that can project power in volumes sufficient to deter enemies, decide wars and pacify entire regions. Part of the American public exhibits today what could be called “world policeman fatigue”, yet in order to reinforce our allies’ trust in our commitment to security and to reinstate our primacy in the conventional and digital battle spaces, we need to reverse the harmful defence budget cuts... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2044746/under-donald-trump-us-will-accept-chinas-rise-long-it-doesnt?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2044746/under-donald-trump-us-will-accept-chinas-rise-long-it-doesnt?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Nov 2016 05:30:00 +0000 For Americans living on the mainland and Hong Kong, Donald Trump’s victory came with a big question mark on his policies once in the Oval Office. “America showed today that there is still a long way to go in terms of fixing xenophobia and racial tension,” said Leah, an American expatriate working in Beijing who refused to give her full name. She felt “truly disappointed” that Hillary Clinton failed to “break the highest of glass ceilings”. Maybe now that America’s true feelings are out in the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044512/americans-china-surprise-and-uncertainty-over-trump-win?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044512/americans-china-surprise-and-uncertainty-over-trump-win?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Nov 2016 23:30:30 +0000 US presidential elections hardly ever hinge on foreign policy, but Donald Trump’s victory has raised serious concern in Asia about US policy in the region, given his rhetoric on the campaign trail on diplomatic isolation and trade protectionism. While most analysts said they did not think Trump would make good on his claims to take the United States back to its pre­-second world war level of isolationism, many expected some major changes to US foreign policy ­towards Asia during his presidency.... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044521/trump-trade-and-us-pivot-asia-what-lies-ahead?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044521/trump-trade-and-us-pivot-asia-what-lies-ahead?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Nov 2016 23:00:30 +0000 Donald Trump called for national unity and promised to work with all nations in a triumphant victory speech on Wednesday that capped the 70-year-old real estate mogul’s election as the United States’ 45th president. Trump’s stunning upset over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, who had been widely ­expected to become the US’ first woman president, defied almost all odds and polls, shocked political and business elites and sent financial markets around the world into panic. Chinese President... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044544/trump-reaches-out-unity-after-stunning-upset-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044544/trump-reaches-out-unity-after-stunning-upset-us?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Nov 2016 15:45:45 +0000 US president-elect Donald Trump spoke during the campaign about a number of countries and concerns in Asia. Here is a summary of his views: Trade Trump plans to increase the number of manufacturing jobs in the US by reducing its trade imbalance with Asian countries. He has pledged to raise tariffs and put pressure on countries exporting to the United States that devalue their currencies. Trump has vowed to raise tariffs by up to 45 per cent on Chinese imports, to stop Beijing from dumping... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044532/trump-asia-what-hes-said-and-where-he-stands?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044532/trump-asia-what-hes-said-and-where-he-stands?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Nov 2016 15:00:15 +0000 If Donald Trump, the president-elect of the United States, follows through on his campaign rhetoric alluding to unfair trade practises, China and particularly Hong Kong will suffer economically, analysts say . In the course of the campaign, Trump said that he would label China a currency manipulator, and impose a punitive tariff of 45 per cent on Chinese imports into the US. In a separate reference on global trade, the Republican candidate said he would impose a 35 per cent tariff on imports... https://www.scmp.com/business/global-economy/article/2044506/protectionist-policies-laid-out-trump-campaign-add-major?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/global-economy/article/2044506/protectionist-policies-laid-out-trump-campaign-add-major?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Nov 2016 13:45:00 +0000 When Donald Trump called China the “greatest” currency manipulator 3 ½ months ago, few in Beijing bothered to respond to his comments. At the time, Trump appeared to have a slim chance at taking the White House, and promises and threats made on the campaign trail are often neglected when the dust settles. Now, with Trump’s surprising victory in the US election, Beijing will have to take his comments regarding the yuan seriously and prepare for a scenario where he might ask the US Treasury to... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044500/trumps-potshots-yuan-campaign-trail-unlikely-escalate?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044500/trumps-potshots-yuan-campaign-trail-unlikely-escalate?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Nov 2016 13:00:15 +0000 Mainland Chinese media described Republican Donald Trump’s win in the US presidential election as a defeat for elite politics and a potential source of great global uncertainty. An editorial published by the Chinese-language Global Times, a tabloid under party mouthpiece People’s Daily, called the win a blow to “conventional US politics”. “[Trump] beat not only [Democratic rival] Hillary Clinton, but also the convictions and authority of the traditional elite politics [that] she stands for,” the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044389/chinas-censors-order-news-outlets-limit-coverage-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044389/chinas-censors-order-news-outlets-limit-coverage-us?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Nov 2016 07:30:45 +0000 In every politics textbook in China, US presidential elections are belittled as money games among the ruling bourgeois to win power and deceive the general public. It doesn’t matter who wins office because a US president will defend moneyed interests at home and extend American imperialism abroad, according to Communist Party orthodoxy. On the surface, the Chinese government does appear to have taken a lofty and detached view of the US election. Watch: Trump receives concession call from... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044308/experienced-tough-talker-or-avid-china-basher-clinton?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044308/experienced-tough-talker-or-avid-china-basher-clinton?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Nov 2016 03:45:45 +0000 Americans may be endlessly complaining about the hard choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the US presidential election. For Grace Chan, a US citizen originally from Hong Kong, the choice was far from difficult. Nor, in her case, exercising the right to vote for one’s leader as a matter of course. Despite having called Cleveland home for 30 years, Chan still follows news about her old hometown, probably more than some people still living in Hong Kong. Not only does she keep track... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2044115/reporters-notebook-occupy-ohio-and-whos-right-choice-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2044115/reporters-notebook-occupy-ohio-and-whos-right-choice-us?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Nov 2016 02:02:41 +0000 For many Americans living in China, the US presidential election can’t end soon enough. “I’m sure we’re all ready that it’ll soon be done. [We’re] pretty tired of all of the scandals,” said Leah, an American expatriate working in Beijing . “We all just want to know who wins so we can move on.” She has voted for Clinton because she believes the former secretary of state “is a much more qualified candidate” than her Republican opponent Donald Trump. The election, however, has been something of an... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044114/americans-china-dismayed-embarrassed-us-presidential?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044114/americans-china-dismayed-embarrassed-us-presidential?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Nov 2016 01:30:15 +0000 When China’s ambassador in Washington, Cui Tiankai, tried to reach out to Hillary Clinton’s campaign team in January, former assistant secretary of state Kurt Campbell acted as a go-between. Campbell was invited to Cui’s residence in northwest Washington for a coffee on January 5, according to a hacked Clinton campaign email released by WikiLeaks. “He [Cui] wants to have an informal, private, off-the-record get-together with a few of us to discuss the next year and the current state of US-China... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2043657/how-china-reached-out-clintons-campaign-team?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2043657/how-china-reached-out-clintons-campaign-team?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Nov 2016 22:00:00 +0000 Unlike Hillary Clinton’s star-studded campaign team, analysts seem to have few clues who is advising Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on foreign policy issues. “We know so little about Trump and, quite frankly, we don’t know very much about the kind of people he would take advice from,” said David Lampton, director of China studies at Johns Hopkins’ school of advanced international studies. We don’t have any real idea of what their China policy would be David Lampton, Johns... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2043643/whats-world-make-donald-trumps-foreign-policy-advisers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2043643/whats-world-make-donald-trumps-foreign-policy-advisers?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Nov 2016 21:05:06 +0000 Hillary Clinton ended her campaign for the White House with a “first families rally” featuring the Clintons and Obamas on the eve of election day, as tens of thousands of her supporters packed Philadelphia’s Independence Mall on Monday night. Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton opened the event for her mother then passed the stage to her father Bill, the 42nd president of the United States, who won election in 1992 and 1996. Incumbent first lady Michelle Obama also addressed the cheering... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044063/clinton-ends-campaign-high-first-families-springsteen?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044063/clinton-ends-campaign-high-first-families-springsteen?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Nov 2016 10:39:52 +0000 A friend from Shanghai and I recently discussed the presidential election in the United States. My friend, a university professor and noted film critic, said she knew nothing about politics, but what she said about it was spot on. She did not think either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump would bring hope to their country as president, but believed Clinton would win the race, going by a trend in US television drama shows. American television shows are the country’s most influential mass media, she... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2043666/if-us-presidential-race-were-tv-drama-hillary-clinton-would?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2043666/if-us-presidential-race-were-tv-drama-hillary-clinton-would?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:37:57 +0000 People in China are more upbeat about the future development of Sino-US relations than their Asian counterparts, even though the two nations are often in confrontation over issues ranging from maritime disputes to cybersecurity, according to a survey ahead of the US presidential election. Clinton ‘wins’ US election among most Asians – but support for Trump stronger in China: survey The survey, commissioned by the South China Morning Post, also shows that Chinese people believe that both... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2043315/chinese-more-upbeat-asian-neighbours-over-sino-us-ties?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2043315/chinese-more-upbeat-asian-neighbours-over-sino-us-ties?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 05 Nov 2016 15:31:56 +0000 An overwhelming majority of people across east Asia favour Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in next week’s US election, but negative sentiment towards Trump is much lower in mainland China than in its five neighbouring countries, according to a survey commissioned by the Sunday Morning Post. The poll finds that while only 13 per cent of respondents in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia want to see Trump elected, the support rate for the brash Republican candidate in... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2043316/clinton-wins-us-election-among-most-asians-support?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2043316/clinton-wins-us-election-among-most-asians-support?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 05 Nov 2016 15:30:45 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2043280/what-asia-thinks-us-presidential-race?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2043280/what-asia-thinks-us-presidential-race?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 05 Nov 2016 11:00:00 +0000 It’s a cold dark evening, with heavy rain. With only days remaining before votes are cast to elect a new president of the United States, Trump supporters gather in New York. Political slogans are chanted, flags plus banners waved and songs sung in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge as the rain pours down. Though small in number, Chinese American voters gain attention in presidential election It’s the second day Chinese Americans backing the Republican candidate have gathered in the city after a... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2042979/us-election-snapshot-chinese-americans-embrace-their?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2042979/us-election-snapshot-chinese-americans-embrace-their?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 05 Nov 2016 00:02:23 +0000 Jack Wang Zhengxian had always voted for the Democratic Party since he emigrated from China to the United States 30 years ago. Today, however, he is an ardent supporter of Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate. As one of 6,000 members of the nationwide campaign “Chinese Americans for Trump”, Wang helped organise state-level events in North Carolina in support of the candidate who, according to a poll, won the hearts of just one in 10 Chinese American voters. “In the past I did not... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2042778/though-small-number-chinese-american-voters-gain?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2042778/though-small-number-chinese-american-voters-gain?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 03 Nov 2016 23:00:15 +0000 Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei said in New York on Wednesday that he is confused by how many Chinese people – both on the mainland and those that have emigrated to the United States – are fans of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. He also said that the winner of the November 8 election – either Trump or his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton – should not to give up raising human rights issues when dealing with China. My political activism is helping efforts to change China,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2042714/dissident-artist-ai-weiwei-surprised-chinese-peoples?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2042714/dissident-artist-ai-weiwei-surprised-chinese-peoples?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 03 Nov 2016 09:30:00 +0000 A top Chinese diplomat on Wednesday held talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry and National Security Adviser Susan Rice on expanding cooperation between the two world powers, just ahead of the US presidential election. Analysts said the meeting between State Councillor Yang Jiechi and the US officials in Washington showed that Beijing was concerned over possible changes to relations after next week’s election, and it was an effort to keep ties stable until the new US administration took... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2042403/high-level-sino-us-talks-seen-bid-keep-ties-stable?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2042403/high-level-sino-us-talks-seen-bid-keep-ties-stable?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 02 Nov 2016 14:45:00 +0000 Jack Jia gave it some thought, but finally left the damaged “Vote Trump for future” banners with a battered box under the Brooklyn Bridge. A sudden downpour had cut short the last of his “New York Chinese Americans for Trump” rallies, bringing the event and much of the rally paraphernalia to a messy end. Soaked to the bone, the New York-based jeweller took off his wet “Chinese Americans love Trump” shirt and fished out a new one from a plastic bag. The day before, as the event’s director, he was... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2042268/how-one-chinese-american-became-politically-aware-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2042268/how-one-chinese-american-became-politically-aware-and?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 02 Nov 2016 03:51:06 +0000 Nevada may be known to the world of American election politics as a swing state with an increasingly diversifying population that both presidential candidates wish to capture. But the growing presence of minority groups in the state is not just felt during the election, but throughout the day-to-day operation of the police officers here in Las Vegas. As I spoke to several members of the city’s police department, including a captain and several officers, who are in charge of the Asian American... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2042085/nevada-police-reach-out-asian-americans-hopes-getting?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2042085/nevada-police-reach-out-asian-americans-hopes-getting?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 02 Nov 2016 00:01:42 +0000 At first glance, the crowd outside Trump Tower on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue could be protesters. With only days to go until the US presidential election, hundreds of people holding banners and flags hand out fliers and chant slogans. But a second look at the “Make America Great Again” signs and the red T-shirts with “Chinese Americans love Trump” in English and Chinese make it all clear. “Is that a protest?” a passer-by asked. “No, wait … Chinese Americans for Trump.” Chinese American supporters... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2041951/theres-nothing-be-ashamed-why-chinese-americans-are?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2041951/theres-nothing-be-ashamed-why-chinese-americans-are?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 01 Nov 2016 07:06:25 +0000 If Hillary Clinton wins the US presidential election, the conventional story will be that her victory was built on her egalitarian economic policy, gender concerns, international relations, strong defence policy and good ties with Europe and Japan. But that’s just the facade – a carefully orchestrated result of millions in campaign funds, good ties with “super PACs” (political action committees), a skillfully manoeuvred electoral college, shrewd public relations and a long series of political... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2041894/hobbled-home-expect-president-clinton-be-hawkish-foreign?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2041894/hobbled-home-expect-president-clinton-be-hawkish-foreign?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 01 Nov 2016 05:01:14 +0000 US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has once again played the “China card” with a promise to “bring back jobs” to America to rouse supporters on Sunday at a rally in his last-ditch attempt to win the swing state of Nevada. With the election taking place on November 8, Nevada – one of a handful of key western swing states – has seen a trend that favours Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton, as registered Democrats had established a seven-point lead over registered Republicans in the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2041652/beijing-took-our-jobs-donald-trump-plays-china-card-he?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2041652/beijing-took-our-jobs-donald-trump-plays-china-card-he?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000 Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi called on the United States to properly manage differences with China ahead of the presidential election. In talks with US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing on Saturday, Wang said the two sides should create positive momentum to their ties. “China and the US must cherish the positive progress of the last eight years ... strategically manage differences, and bring healthy and stable Sino-US relations to the next US government,” Wang was quoted as... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2041419/wang-yi-tells-us-properly-handle-ties-ahead?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2041419/wang-yi-tells-us-properly-handle-ties-ahead?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 30 Oct 2016 15:43:37 +0000 Some folks say the Democrats are going to be the winners in next month’s US election, some say the Republicans. From my view in Asia, where I’ve lived and worked for over 20 years, I say the Communists in Beijing will be the biggest winners. They must be revelling in the fun right now, witnessing just how depraved freedom and democracy have become. Get out and vote, America, and show the world that democracy works I’m not going to waste my vote on either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, who are... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2038945/us-making-mockery-democracy-and-china-must-be-loving-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2038945/us-making-mockery-democracy-and-china-must-be-loving-it?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 22 Oct 2016 02:00:15 +0000 American voters living in China are counting down the days to what many describe as an “unusual” US presidential election next month – and one that could have profound ramifications for ties between the world’s two largest economies. Catherine McMahon was filling in her ballot on her laptop in the corner of a cafe in Beijing’s Wudaokou neighbourhood on a smoggy Sunday afternoon. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, she arrived in China three years ago and founded a design studio in... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2035127/hopes-fears-and-expectations-americans-china-count-down?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2035127/hopes-fears-and-expectations-americans-china-count-down?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Oct 2016 08:00:00 +0000 China is prepared for the likely victory of Hillary Clinton in the US presidential election next month, but is confident it will be able to handle bilateral ties whichever candidate wins, say Chinese foreign policy experts. In the third debate between the two presidential candidates on Thursday morning (Hong Kong time), China played an even smaller role than it did in the first two debates. Trump stuns with ‘nasty woman’ jibe and refuses to say he’ll accept election result: see how final US... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2038582/clinton-likely-win-chinas-prepared-whoever-becomes-next?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2038582/clinton-likely-win-chinas-prepared-whoever-becomes-next?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Oct 2016 04:15:45 +0000 Donald Trump has fired up his base of supporters with the accusation that China’s stealing American jobs and gaming its currency to stoke exports. “They are a manipulator, grand master level,” the Republican US presidential candidate said in a speech at the New York Economic Club last month. He vows to impose punishing trade tariffs of up to 45 per cent if China doesn’t change the predatory practises he sees. Such fiery rhetoric is powerful, but the characterizations are dated -- by about a... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/2038455/trumps-trade-rants-against-china-so-2005?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/2038455/trumps-trade-rants-against-china-so-2005?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Oct 2016 20:52:02 +0000 US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has said the US could claim the Pacific Ocean as an “American Sea” if China claims all of the South China Sea, according to excerpts of her speech contained in hacked emails revealed by WikiLeaks. In a speech the Democratic candidate gave to bankers from Goldman Sachs in October 2013, she said the Chinese “have a right to assert themselves” in the South China Sea but the US needed to “push back” to keep Beijing from getting a “chokehold over world... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2027728/if-beijing-can-claim-south-china-sea-us-can-call?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2027728/if-beijing-can-claim-south-china-sea-us-can-call?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 13 Oct 2016 06:15:00 +0000 US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2013 hailed President Xi Jinping as “a better politician” than his predecessor, Hu Jintao, praising Xi’s ability to consolidate his authority over the military, according to hacked emails released by WikiLeaks. The emails contained excerpts of private speeches Clinton gave between June and November that year and her comments are in sharp contrast to her other public remarks. Last year, the former US secretary of state described Xi’s pledge on women’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2027712/chinas-xi-jinping-better-politician-hu-jintao-hillary?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2027712/chinas-xi-jinping-better-politician-hu-jintao-hillary?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 13 Oct 2016 06:00:15 +0000 China – a key topic in the first US presidential debate – faded out of the picture almost completely in the second debate as Donald Trump’s sexist comments, Hillary Clinton’s email controversy and other domestic issues dominated the session. There was no real debate between the two presidential candidates about the United States’ biggest trading partner and rising geopolitical challenger in Asia. How the second Trump-Clinton debate got dirty: recap with the SCMP’s commentary The word “China” was... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2026710/just-four-mentions-china-fades-limelight-second-clinton?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2026710/just-four-mentions-china-fades-limelight-second-clinton?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Oct 2016 06:39:11 +0000