Trade ties between the U.S. and China have undergone significant changes since the launch of the China in the World podcast 10 years ago. This episode helps shed light on the evolution of U.S.-China trade relations over that time.
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the China in the World podcast, in this podcast episode Carnegie China is looking back on 10 years of U.S.-China diplomacy following the postponement of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s planned visit...
Critics of the last four decades of China policy have incorrectly and simplistically labeled diplomacy a failure because the People’s Republic did not become a liberal democracy. That was never the goal or an achievable objective of U.S. policy....
The tour comes just two weeks after President Trump held a summit with Xi in Beijing and days after Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, a White House adviser, participated in a global economic summit in Hyderabad, India.
Last week, the United States and China announced a new trade deal on the eve of China launching a sweeping conference to promote its One Belt, One Road development and infrastructure investment initiative. How good are the terms of the Washington...
In just a few weeks, the Chinese president will host the Belt and Road summit—Xi Jinping’s landmark program to invest billions of dollars in infrastructure projects across Asia, Africa, and Europe. Reactions to the project have...
This week, the foreign ministers of the 10 countries that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are coming to Washington for an annual U.S.-ASEAN dialogue.
The president last year compared China’s economic behavior to “rape.” Now he says he and Xi are “in the process of getting along very well.”
Donald Trump is, by his own admission, not terribly analytical or deliberative.
Last week, President Donald Trump declared that he would bring back coal jobs, directing the EPA to roll back the Clean Power Plan and other regulations on coal producers.
President Trump’s signing of an executive order on Tuesday aimed at undoing many of the Obama administration’s climate change policies flips the roles of the two powers.
Democrat Max Baucus, the U.S. ambassador to China since 2014, is preparing to hand over the post to his successor. He discusses the future of the U.S.-China relationship.
U.S. is challenging Beijing’s financing of its industries with low-cost loans
President warns successor to think through the consequences of his actions
During a meeting in Peru, Xi Jinping praised outgoing President Obama for strengthening ties between the two nations
Barely eight weeks before the United States presidential election, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and her Republican rival Donald Trump have said surprisingly little about how they plan to address China—in areas ranging from the global...
As President Obama enters his final months in office and a new administration prepares to take the helm in 2017, what will his legacy be in the Asia-Pacific? In this podcast, Paul Haenle and Michael Green, former senior director...
Western officials say that negotiations and joint events often feel like exercises in humiliation.
International responses to the tribunal’s ruling in the South China Sea have raised questions about the stability of the Asia-Pacific region and what roles the United States and China have in it. In this podcast, Paul Haenle and...
The Tibetan, Buddhist spiritual leader is considered a dangerous separatist....
Liu Xiaobo, who in 2009 was sentenced to 11 years in jail on charges of inciting state subversion.
China has acknowledged that the breach of the United States Office of Personnel Management’s computer systems was the work of Chinese hackers.
President Obama addressed the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Manila, where he discussed China, trade and climate change.
The state visits of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary and President Xi Jinping to Washington, D.C. in September and London last week were both significant milestones in China’s long term “rejuvenation,” a key element in Xi...
While political and security matters dominated headlines, Xi’s U.S. trip was actually driven by economics.
For Xiao Jiguo, a Chinese Obama impersonator, it’s all about the eyebrows.
The September 25 joint announcement by President Obama and President Xi represents the second time in two years the leaders have met to make significant climate commitments. Last year’s meeting focused on setting aggressive goals that reflect...
A man from the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan has been making a living by looking like US President Barack Obama.
On Monday, the U.S., Japan, and ten other countries concluded negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP—the largest regional trade accord in history. If approved, the agreement will set new terms for the nearly $28 trillion in trade...
Something big and strange is happening in the United States this week.
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in the United States today on his first state visit. Xi will address a group of American business leadersin Seattle. High on their list of concerns about trade with China is cyber hacking, cyber espionage and...
Despite the enormous range and complexity of the US-China relationship, it is becoming ever harder to manage.
The United States and China are secretly negotiating what could become the first arms control accord for cyberspace, embracing a commitment by each country that it will not be the first to use cyberweapons to cripple the other’s critical...
Already, there's drama, drama, drama.
Visits to Washington always seem to come at uniquely difficult times.
With just over a week to go before Chinese President Xi Jinping begins his first State Visit to the United States, there is much evidence to suggest that bilateral action to fight climate change is an area most ripe for meaningful Sino-U.S....
“U.S. antipathy to China is rooted in angst about its rise and the prospect of American decline.”
Obama plans to welcome Xi with the highest level of diplomatic pageantry for a foreign leader.
Chinese naval presence off Alaskan coast appears to be a first.
How the U.S. might use the summit for a new “new model of great power relations.”
Obama is developing unprecedented economic sanctions against Chinese who have benefited from government cybertheft of U.S. trade secrets.
The world's two largest economies have mutual interests, like trying to rein in North Korea's nuclear program, sevear deep disagreements exist.
Presidential candidates Trump, Walker, Rubio, Clinton and others are making politcal hay out of pitting the U.S. against China.
If elected, Trump vowed to eschew the lavish dinner Xi Jinping will get in Washington from President Obama.
Amid rising tension, a Republican calls to end a diplomatic courtesy.
As tensions increase between China and the United States over the value of the yuan, human rights violations, alleged cyber attacks, and disputed maritime territories, among other issues, how should the Obama administration conduct the upcoming...
The difference between U.S. and Chinese foreign policies in Africa was on stark display in July when president Barack Obama made his landmark visits to Kenya and Ethiopia. The president brought along with him a vast agenda that transcended trade...
U.S. officials said the probe into a massive breach of federal government networks has yielded growing signs of a direct Chinese role.
The past several months have seen a growing chorus of calls for the U.S. to take stock of its policy toward China. Some prominent voices have called for greater efforts by the U.S. and China to forge “a...
And why China needs to listen to the U.S. The importance of the mutual economic criticisms between two major world powers.
Why are we so worried about the Islamic State when Beijing is the real challenge?
Obama cautions on Beijing’s rise as he pushes TPP at home; a look at key differences in how the U.S. and China approach trade expansion.
