May 10, 2019
Trump says it's still possible that the U.S. and China reach a deal this week.
Joseph S. Nye, Professor, Harvard University
May 09, 2019
US President Donald Trump’s administration has shown little interest in public diplomacy. And yet public diplomacy – a government’s efforts to communicate directly with other countries’ publics – is one of the key instruments policymakers use to generate soft power, and the current information revolution makes such instruments more important than ever.
May 06, 2019
Liu He may still travel to the U.S. but shorten his trip or cancel it altogether.
May 06, 2019
This week’s talks between China and the U.S. are in jeopardy after Beijing hits back on President Trump’s threat to raise tariffs. Sources say that China is considering cancelling trade negotiations that were due to begin in Washington on Wednesday.
David Fickling, Opinion Columnist, Bloomberg
May 06, 2019
"Perhaps it’s even a high-stakes negotiating tactic. But rash actions, and misunderstanding policy, have real-world effects."
May 06, 2019
President’s warning to China takes Beijing by surprise.
Apr 15, 2019
U.S. negotiators have tempered demands that China curb industrial subsidies as a condition for a trade deal after strong resistance from Beijing, according to two sources briefed on discussions, marking a retreat on a core U.S. objective for the trade talks.
Apr 04, 2019
Liu He is in Washington for the latest round of trade talks.
Tian Feilong, Associate Professor, the Law School of Beihang University
Apr 03, 2019
Trump’s national emergency declaration is an attempt to break what Francis Fukuyama calls a “vetocracy”: a degraded democracy where elites have lost all consensus. This clash exposes the rift between Republican believers in American nationalism and Democratic supporters of universal human rights — but it will do nothing to solve underlying issues brought by inequitable globalization.
Apr 03, 2019
A Chinese woman who passed security checkpoints at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida carrying a thumb drive coded with “malicious” software was arrested on Saturday for entering a restricted property and making false statements to officials, according to a court filing.