https://www.scmp.com/rss/518959/feed Dennis Wilder is a former senior American intelligence official and policymaker. He currently serves as a professor of practice at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a senior fellow of Georgetown’s Initiative for US-China Dialogue on Global Issues. From 2004 to 2009, he served on the National Security Council as special assistant to the president and senior director for East Asia. From 2009 to 2015, he was the senior editor of the President’s Daily Brief, the intelligence... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Dennis Wilder Dennis Wilder Chinese President Xi Jinping’s decision to speak to US President Donald Trump directly last week, the first such call in four months, spoke volumes about the importance to Xi of finding a way through the morass of Sino-US relations. Xi’s decision ran counter to the long-standing Chinese diplomatic approach during Sino-US tensions of the Chinese president refusing calls from the US president despite persistent entreaties. The White House had repeatedly predicted a Xi-Trump phone call only to fall... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3313551/why-xis-decision-talk-trump-during-trade-crisis-speaks-volumes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3313551/why-xis-decision-talk-trump-during-trade-crisis-speaks-volumes?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 Jun 2025 12:30:07 +0000 US President Joe Biden has reportedly approved a new national security memorandum intended to serve as a “road map” for the Trump national security team on dealing with China, Iran, North Korea and Russia. The memorandum, which reportedly provides recommendations on such things as “improving US government inter-agency cooperation” and “speeding up the sharing of information with allies”, are really critiques on the Biden team’s performance. The question needs to be asked: if these were such... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3291240/how-bidens-memos-can-ensure-continuity-us-foreign-policy-under-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3291240/how-bidens-memos-can-ensure-continuity-us-foreign-policy-under-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:30:09 +0000 Hong Kong’s reputation has recently suffered new blows with the passage of the domestic Article 23 national security law and the conviction of 14 pro-democracy activists on charges of conspiracy to commit subversion. It is easy to dismiss today’s Hong Kong as just another Chinese city where citizens mindlessly obey the Communist Party. That is a superficial and unfair characterisation of Hongkongers, who are known for making the best of any situation, even if it is not of their own choosing. The... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3265429/dont-write-hongkongers-just-yet?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3265429/dont-write-hongkongers-just-yet?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 08 Jun 2024 01:30:10 +0000