https://www.scmp.com/rss/524526/feed The latest news and top stories on Xie Feng, China’s 12th Ambassador to the United States, assuming the role in May 2023. He has an extensive diplomatic career spanning over three decades, beginning in China’s Foreign Ministry in 1986. His background includes serving as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, with specific responsibility for US relations, Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong, and Ambassador to Indonesia. He also had two previous postings at the Chinese Embassy... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Orange Wang Orange Wang The world breathed a sigh of relief as US President Donald Trump announced he would extend the ceasefire with Iran hours before it was set to expire. But the relief proved short-lived. Trump issued fresh war threats on social media – heightening uncertainty as the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked and a second round of Pakistan-mediated peace talks hangs in limbo. These are the main takeaways from what happened overnight. Last-minute extension Trump indefinitely extended the two-week ceasefire... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3350936/iran-war-latest-trumps-ceasefire-reversal-and-tensions-simmer-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3350936/iran-war-latest-trumps-ceasefire-reversal-and-tensions-simmer-china?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:03:57 +0000 Khushboo Razdan,Xinmei Shen,Dewey Sim,Mark Magnier Khushboo Razdan,Xinmei Shen,Dewey Sim,Mark Magnier China has confirmed that discussions were under way about US President Donald Trump’s planned visit in April, when sources said the two sides were expected to extend their current trade truce by up to one year. Lin Jian, a foreign ministry spokesman, said President Xi Jinping had repeated an invitation to Trump to visit when the pair spoke by phone last week. “The two sides are in communication on this,” Lin added, stressing the importance of talks between the two heads of state. The two reached... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3343240/trump-and-xi-expected-extend-trade-truce-beijing-summit?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3343240/trump-and-xi-expected-extend-trade-truce-beijing-summit?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:43:33 +0000 Khushboo Razdan Khushboo Razdan China’s leader Xi Jinping spoke with US President Donald Trump by phone on Wednesday, just hours after a video call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to the Chinese readout, Xi told Trump that the Taiwan question was the “most important” issue in China-US relations, stressing that the island was Chinese territory and that Beijing would never allow it to be separated. Xi said China must safeguard its national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and urged Washington to handle... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3342409/hours-after-call-vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-talks-donald-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3342409/hours-after-call-vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-talks-donald-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:46:59 +0000 Mark Magnier Mark Magnier China’s top diplomat in the United States delivered a sharply worded rebuke on Thursday over US President Donald Trump’s tumultuous approach to global relations, laying out a stark choice between a world informed by China-led stability and one battered by Washington. Chinese ambassador Xie Feng’s comments to the 1,000-member China General Chamber of Commerce come two weeks into Trump’s second year of his latest term in the White House. The past fortnight has already seen the Trump administration... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3340117/chinas-us-envoy-says-world-faces-stark-choice-2026-opens-instability?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3340117/chinas-us-envoy-says-world-faces-stark-choice-2026-opens-instability?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:00:12 +0000 Xinlu Liang Xinlu Liang When Elyn MacInnis first moved to Nanjing in the late 1980s, she was greeted by a wholly unexpected connection. Local elderly residents would look at the American newcomer, pause and tell her she resembled Minnie Vautrin: a middle-aged woman with round glasses and centre-parted hair often pinned up. MacInnis, who goes by the Chinese name Mu Yanling, knew the name only vaguely then. Vautrin was an American missionary who led Jinling Women’s College during the Nanking massacre, in the city now... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3336246/how-american-familys-wartime-bond-china-bringing-countries-together?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3336246/how-american-familys-wartime-bond-china-bringing-countries-together?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:00:09 +0000 Fan Chen,Meredith Chen Fan Chen,Meredith Chen China’s ambassador to the United States has come to the defence of the country’s students and academics, saying they have been “smeared” as a threat to national security. “A few individuals in the United States have seen Chinese students, scholars, and friendly organisations … as national security threats through a biased lens and have tried every means to smear and obstruct them,” Xie Feng said in a video message to the US-China Hong Kong Forum. “People with vision in China and the US need to... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3333080/stop-stigmatising-chinese-students-and-researchers-ambassador-us-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3333080/stop-stigmatising-chinese-students-and-researchers-ambassador-us-says?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:00:11 +0000 Vanessa Cai Vanessa Cai China’s top envoy to the US said the top priority for both countries is to translate recent outcomes from meetings in Busan and Kuala Lumpur into concrete actions without “causing new disruptions”. Speaking via video link to the US-China Business Council’s annual conference in Shanghai, Xie Feng also reiterated Beijing’s four red lines, including the Taiwan issue, according to a transcript of his speech released by the Chinese embassy on Tuesday. Xie’s speech, delivered on Monday, came after... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3331462/chinas-us-envoy-calls-action-after-xi-trump-summit-warns-against-new-disruptions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3331462/chinas-us-envoy-calls-action-after-xi-trump-summit-warns-against-new-disruptions?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Nov 2025 08:01:15 +0000 Orange Wang Orange Wang The United States could help stabilise relations with Beijing by scaling back its military activities in the South China Sea and restraining Taiwan, a think tank has suggested. Researchers from the Rand Corporation argued that stabilising the ongoing US-China rivalry was “not only possible but can serve the interests of both sides”. Although they said that the two countries were “very far from even conceptualising how their rivalry could end or be transcended”, they emphasised the need to look... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3329458/can-us-and-beijing-avoid-dangerous-levels-tension-over-taiwan-and-south-china-sea?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3329458/can-us-and-beijing-avoid-dangerous-levels-tension-over-taiwan-and-south-china-sea?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:00:08 +0000 Fan Chen,Khushboo Razdan Fan Chen,Khushboo Razdan China’s embassy in the United States has warned against a new round of “media warfare” as Washington moves to cut the duration of visas for Chinese journalists. “We do not want to see a new round of ‘media warfare’ between the two countries and urge the US to refrain from taking this erroneous move,” embassy spokesman Liu Pengyu said on Tuesday. As part of a broader crackdown on illegal immigration, the US Department of Homeland Security proposed in August to cap the stay of mainland Chinese... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3325032/china-says-shorter-us-visa-mainland-journalists-risks-media-warfare?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3325032/china-says-shorter-us-visa-mainland-journalists-risks-media-warfare?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:00:18 +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 Orange Wang Orange Wang US aid to China during World War II was driven by Washington’s self-interest, and the dynamics between the two nations before 1949 was that of “coloniser and oppressed”, according to a top Chinese government-backed historical journal. Another paper in the same issue of the periodical characterised Moscow’s wartime support as “offering fuel in snowy weather” while accusing the United States and its Western allies of trying to “erase” the Soviet Union’s contribution to the anti-fascist... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3322979/ahead-victory-day-military-parade-chinese-experts-cast-doubt-us-aid-during-wwii?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3322979/ahead-victory-day-military-parade-chinese-experts-cast-doubt-us-aid-during-wwii?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 24 Aug 2025 11:45:00 +0000 Meredith Chen Meredith Chen China’s latest blockbuster movie depicting one of Japan’s worst war crimes, the 1937 Nanking massacre, has been described by the director as part of an “invisible battle” to bring greater international recognition to the country’s suffering in World War II. Dead to Rights is based on the true story of how a young apprentice in a photo studio found and developed evidence of the atrocities in secret, which was later used in a war-crimes tribunal. The mass murder of civilians in the city, now known... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3321383/hit-chinese-film-about-japanese-war-crimes-highlights-forgotten-history?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3321383/hit-chinese-film-about-japanese-war-crimes-highlights-forgotten-history?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 10 Aug 2025 12:35:46 +0000 Laura Zhou,Fan Chen Laura Zhou,Fan Chen China has invited descendants of the American Flying Tigers to Beijing for the commemoration of the end of World War II, according to people familiar with the situation. A source said they include Cynthia Chennault, the daughter of Claire Lee Chennault who commanded the volunteers who helped in China’s fight against Japan, and one of his granddaughters, Nell Calloway. The Flying Tigers, officially known as the American Volunteer Group, were a group of pilots who were hired to fight for China –... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3320949/china-invites-descendents-us-flying-tigers-who-fought-japan-mark-end-world-war-ii?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3320949/china-invites-descendents-us-flying-tigers-who-fought-japan-mark-end-world-war-ii?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:00:11 +0000 Coco Feng,Xinmei Shen,Zhao Ziwen Coco Feng,Xinmei Shen,Zhao Ziwen Artificial intelligence (AI) is spreading everywhere – in our homes and workplaces, and in our social media feeds – but who governs how it is used around the world remains in question. Are there, or will there be, common rules? For now, it would seem not. Earlier this year, the Trump administration and the UK refused to join China and more than 60 other countries in signing an international declaration at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris promoting “inclusive” and “sustainable”... https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3316773/artificial-intelligence-oversight-divides-china-us-policymakers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3316773/artificial-intelligence-oversight-divides-china-us-policymakers?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 03 Jul 2025 07:00:13 +0000