https://www.scmp.com/rss/328838/feed William Mundell is the producer of a documentary on the US-China relationship, Better Angels, to be released in the autumn en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The United States’ frustration over trade relations with China boils down to one gripe: China doesn’t play fair. Yet, just over 150 years ago, the roles were reversed. Back then, it was imperial China that complained about the US not playing fair and it was the US that was on the verge of becoming the world’s largest economy.  At a critical moment in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln sent a charismatic former Congressman, Anson Burlingame, to China as his envoy. This would change history and may... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/3005811/china-trade-deal-wont-solve-anything-if-americans-dont-get?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/3005811/china-trade-deal-wont-solve-anything-if-americans-dont-get?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Apr 2019 19:00:07 +0000 Lee Kuan Yew, the founding prime minister of Singapore, often said that competition between the US and China is inevitable, but conflict is not. He may have been underestimating the suspicions and fears underlying great power relations today. Even if we get past the present stand-off, the prospects for an enduring resolution to the trade war are remote unless a fundamentally different approach is employed.  In Trumpian logic, because the United States runs a US$375 billion trade deficit with... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2166444/trade-war-could-end-if-china-commits-helping?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2166444/trade-war-could-end-if-china-commits-helping?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 01 Oct 2018 19:00:30 +0000