https://www.scmp.com/rss/523322/feed The latest news and top stories on Nicholas Burns, the US Ambassador to China from 2022 until early 2025 under President Joe Biden. He was the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, US Ambassador to NATO and Greece, and State Department Spokesperson. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Khushboo Razdan Khushboo Razdan The United States will face a “critical shortage” of China expertise within a decade that threatens to leave policymakers struggling to manage Washington’s most consequential strategic relationship, a report said on Monday. As China experts retire and the number of Americans studying in China sharply declines, the resulting talent gap presents a “national security and an economic competitiveness” problem, warned the report by an expert working group of the Washington-based non-profit US-China... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3347644/us-faces-critical-shortage-china-expertise-within-decade-report-warns?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3347644/us-faces-critical-shortage-china-expertise-within-decade-report-warns?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:53:43 +0000 Cao Jiaxuan Cao Jiaxuan Economic issues are expected to take centre stage at the US-China summit in April but regional security will also feature, according to former US ambassador to Beijing Nicholas Burns. Speaking via a video link to the Yale Centre Beijing on Tuesday, Burns said US President Donald Trump would be “right to focus on economic issues” during his trip to the Chinese capital for talks with President Xi Jinping. “And let us hope that they can sustain the truce in tariffs – the tariff wars – and sustain... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3343223/what-will-headline-xi-trump-summit-former-us-envoy-weighs?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3343223/what-will-headline-xi-trump-summit-former-us-envoy-weighs?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:00:08 +0000 Frank Tang Frank Tang Washington should focus its industrial policy on strategic, cutting-edge technologies rather than trying to bring back manufacturing wholesale, particularly in areas where the US has little competitive advantage, said members of the former Joe Biden administration. This comes at a time when US policy circles are debating whether the nation should borrow some of China’s playbook as the bilateral competition intensifies and how far it should go as China’s state-led system makes a big bet on... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3329993/biden-era-officials-urge-focus-hi-tech-strategy-not-us-manufacturing-revival?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3329993/biden-era-officials-urge-focus-hi-tech-strategy-not-us-manufacturing-revival?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:04:45 +0000 Laura Zhou Laura Zhou Ahead of the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, marking the end of the Sino-Japanese war and the global fight against fascism, we look at the profound changes of the post-war period and how they continue to affect China’s place in the world. Part four of this series examines how the history of Sino-American cooperation has been extolled as a potential formula for better bilateral ties from the ground up. Behind the familiar history of World War II lies a forgotten front, lined with unsung heroes... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3323755/could-remembering-shared-world-war-ii-history-be-key-better-china-us-ties?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3323755/could-remembering-shared-world-war-ii-history-be-key-better-china-us-ties?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:00:18 +0000 SCMP SCMP Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. US and China are ‘creeping’ towards a trade deal, former ambassador Burns says Washington and Beijing are on a “creeping path towards some kind of a deal”, former US ambassador to China Nicholas Burns said on Tuesday, while offering some rare support for US President Donald Trump’s tariff strategy towards China. 2. China’s foreign minister urges SCO to work... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3318464/us-china-creeping-towards-deal-brain-drain-loss-america-scmp-daily-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3318464/us-china-creeping-towards-deal-brain-drain-loss-america-scmp-daily-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:15:08 +0000