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Breaking news and analysis on US-China relations, including trade war, talks, and tensions between Washington and Beijing.
When the world’s biggest economies are in the doldrums and their governments are at loggerheads, we are all much worse off.
Unlike previously successful empires including the British imperial state, debt and deficit – rather than economic and productive might – drive the present-day US empire instead of its decline.
After the battles over 5G, social media and advanced microchips, Chinese electric cars are the new front line of US economic warfare.
Products from firms such as Meta and Snap have ‘rewired the way children think, behave and learn’, school boards said. Lawsuit also named TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance.
Frank Jannuzi says Hong Kong should celebrate what makes the city special to convince Americans that it is different from the rest of China.
As more details emerge related to US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s coming trip to China, signs indicate excess capacity in sectors like electric vehicles will be a major sticking point in trade discussions.
Washington has asked countries with US business interests to avoid selling sensitive tech-related gear to China, and analysts say it would take China a while to develop its own advanced chips industry.
Chinese scholar Da Wei tells Beijing forum recent deterioration in major power relations are ‘very difficult times’.
Current Dutch and Japanese export rules have no restrictions against local firms servicing tools that Chinese clients previously bought.
In 2018, Lieberman was hired by Chinese telecoms company ZTE as it tried to fend off US national security concerns. He died in New York after complications from a fall, his family said.
If elected, Yee would be first woman to become California’s governor. She was born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrant parents.
US Treasury Department accused entities of channelling funds to North Korea’s weapons programmes. It said action was coordinated with South Korea.
‘Excess capacity poses risks not only to American workers and firms and to the global economy, but also to productivity and growth in the Chinese economy,’ Yellen says.
Chinese leader also promises more policy support to build ‘first-class business environment’ in meeting with executives and academics.
Xi told the outgoing Dutch prime minister that ‘fragmenting industrial and supply chains will only lead to division and confrontation’
Long tied to Beijing for tourism and gambling income, Northern Mariana Islands needs more aid from Washington, says governor.
Asia should guard against being ‘testing grounds for parallel systems’, says Liu Jianchao, who is tipped to be China’s next foreign minister.
Readers discuss a US bill that seeks to wrest the popular app from its Chinese parent company, and Hamas’ approach in Gaza.
The Federal Trade Commission has been looking into allegations the popular social media app failed to live up to an agreement aimed at protecting children’s privacy.
China ‘continues to use unfair, non-market policies and practices to undermine fair competition and pursue the dominance of the PRC’s manufacturers’, says US Trade Representative Katherine Tai.
Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son, in Washington for meetings with senior US officials, says his nation ‘can have good relations with all major powers’ and that Vietnam president’s ouster will not be destabilising.
China has lodged a grievance against US electric vehicle subsidies at the World Trade Organization, alleging ‘discrimination’ in selective treatment for products depending on the venue of their final assembly.
Long Yongtu tells the Boao Forum for Asia that ‘globalised economic and trade systems are at stake’, and targeting Chinese companies in Mexico would mean higher prices for Americans.
Taiwan launched its newly renovated pier on Taiping islet in the disputed South China Sea on Tuesday but Tsai Ing-wen’s absence was noted by the opposition.
Manila cannot win on its own, and the US is not interested in getting directly involved, South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative says in latest annual report.
The Philippine flotilla was outnumbered and “surrounded by Chinese ships” during the supply mission, a reporter says.
Two students and a professor said the measure was reminiscent of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which instituted a 10-year ban on Chinese labourers immigrating to the US.
According to 2023 UN data, Chinese inventors led in international patent applications for the second year running, posting some 14,000 more than the second-place US.