Is Trump Backing Down on China?
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.”
China in the World Podcast
04.11.17
Trump and Xi’s First Meeting
from Carnegie ChinaAll eyes are on Mar-a-Lago this week, where Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet for the first time. The summit is expected to be heavy on symbolism rather than on concrete deliverables, but the...
China and South Korea Said to Promise Tougher Sanctions if North Conducts Tests
China and South Korea agreed on Monday to impose tougher sanctions on North Korea if it carries out nuclear or intercontinental ballistic missile tests
U.S. Reroutes Warships toward Korean Peninsula in Show of Force
The commander of American forces in the Pacific has ordered an aircraft carrier and several other warships toward the Korean Peninsula in a show of force by the Trump administration
Wife of Detained Activist from Taiwan Is Barred from China
China’s Ministry of Public Security has barred the wife of a detained Taiwan-born rights activist from flying to Beijing on Monday, adding to the drama surrounding the man’s disappearance after he entered China more than three weeks ago.
After Xi Leaves U.S., Chinese Media Assail Strike on Syria
With President Xi Jinping safely out of the United States and no longer President Trump’s guest, China’s state-run media on Saturday was free to denounce the missile strike on Syria.
Tang Poems and Folk Tales: History’s Role in the Trump-Xi Reset
The Syria airstrike and other moments that made for a rocky summit start
The Kushner Kids on Show, North Korea on Notice and Other Takeaways from the Xi-Trump Summit
President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping were basically repackaging the existing process of negotiation between their countries.
Trump’s Quick Wins on China Trade Won’t Wipe out the Deficit
The U.S. and China have given themselves 100 days to make progress on the thorny issue of trade.
Dalai Lama’s Journey Provokes China, and Hints at His Heir
It has been a hard journey for the 81-year-old Dalai Lama, perhaps his last over the mountain passes at the edge of China, to a town that has played a fateful role in his life, and in the history of Tibetan Buddhism.
China Tech Investment Flying under the Radar, Pentagon Warns
China is investing in Silicon Valley start-ups with military applications at such a rapid rate that the United States government needs tougher controls to stem the transfer of some of America’s most promising technologies, a Pentagon report says...
China Urges ‘Restraint’ after U.S. Airstrike on Syrian Airfield
China on Friday warned against “the escalation of tension” in Syria after President Trump launched an airstrike on a Syrian government air base, adding a surprise twist to his two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Viewpoint
04.06.17
Is It Time to Give up on Engagement?
In the lead-up to U.S. President Trump’s meeting later this week with China’s Xi Jinping, Orville Schell, ChinaFile’s publisher, wrote an essay in The Wall Street...
Viewpoint
04.06.17
What Do Trump and Xi Share? A Dislike of Muslims
During the 1980s, as an idealistic, ambitious Uighur growing up under repressive Chinese conditions in the city of Kashgar, there was one nation to which I pinned my hopes for freedom and democracy. To me, the United States was a...
How Trump Can Solve His Chinese Puzzle
Getting tough with China is a central part of Donald Trump’s plan to “make America great again.” During the election campaign, he claimed that China was “raping” American industry.
Trump’s Team Has No Idea What It’s Doing On China
Donald Trump is, by his own admission, not terribly analytical or deliberative.
All Mapped Out: How China’s Charting Its Course as a Superpower
In February, the French daily Le Monde published a map reportedly circulated by the Chinese military. It showed the People’s Republic in the center of the globe with all else shrinking away toward the edges: “The world turned upside down for...
Environment
04.06.17
As the U.S. Steps Back, China Must Step up on Climate Leadership
from chinadialoguePresidents Trump and Xi are scheduled to meet today at Mar-a Lago, Florida, and given the tense state of U.S.-China relations and the political leanings of the Trump administration there is much at stake for cooperation between...
South China Sea: Duterte Orders Philippines Military to Occupy Islands
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said Thursday he has ordered military personnel to occupy all Philippines-claimed islands in the disputed South China Sea.
Jared Kushner Is One of Trump's Top Advisers on China
When President Trump meets with his Chinese counterpart at Mar-a-Lago this weekend, he will not have the assistant secretaries of State and Defense for East Asia at his side — because his administration has failed to hire anyone for either of...
Viewpoint
04.05.17
Xi Is Ready for the Summit. Trump Can’t Possibly Be. So What Should He Do?
At the summit in Mar-a-Lago, U.S. President Donald Trump hopes to alter deeply-rooted Chinese policies despite having no China strategy. China’s Communist Party Secretary Xi Jinping hopes that by making deals on secondary matters...
Trump Team Takes Steps to Keep Chinese Away from Westinghouse
The Trump administration is so alarmed that Chinese investors may try to purchase Westinghouse Electric Co.’s nuclear business that U.S. officials are trying to find an American or allied buyer for the company instead, two people familiar with...
North Korea Is Increasingly a Focus of U.S.-China Meeting
The White House is talking in more urgent terms about North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, as President Donald Trump’s talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping approach.
Is Trump Wise to Take on China over Trade?
Trade will be one of two key issues on the agenda, along with North Korea. But what’s the problem—and what can Trump do about it?
U.S.-China Trade Scorecard: Advantage China
When President Trump meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, he will remind his guest that China runs the largest trade surplus with the United States.
China’s Emergence as Top U.S. Oil Buyer Highlights Economic Ties
China was the top foreign buyer of U.S. crude in February, according to data that show the growing interdependence of the world’s big energy-consuming nations at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions.
Why China’s Got Beef with U.S. Beef
Beef may be on the table when the U.S. president and Chinese leader Xi Jinping discuss trade during this week’s summit at Trump’s Florida resort.
Can Trump Match Xi Jinping’s Game?
Donald Trump has struggled with his position on China. President Xi Jinping has several reasons for confidence when he arrives at Mar-a-Lago for negotiations.
Books
04.05.17
China’s Crony Capitalism
When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” More than three decades later, China’s efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the working people’s paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient kleptocracy, characterized by endemic corruption, soaring income inequality, and growing social tensions.
A Veteran and China Hand Advises Trump for Xi’s Visit
This week, Matthew Pottinger will be on hand for President Trump’s meeting with President Xi Jinping of China, as the top Asia policy maker in an administration desperately short of his kind of on-the-ground experience.
As Trump-Xi Summit Looms, Evidence of Strained Ties on China-North Korea Border
What was planned in 2011 as a 30 billion yuan ($4.36 billion) development intended to showcase economic engagement between the two countries has stalled in recent months.
Trump’s Gifts to China
The United States meets China this week in a position of weakness.
Despite Trump’s Rage against China, American Public Opinion Is Warming to the Asian Giant
As the U.S. president prepares to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Florida this week, a new survey by the Pew Research Center shows that the American public is significantly less worried about those issues than they were a couple of...
South Korean Automakers Cut China Production amid Missile Dispute
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co and Kia Motors Corp have sharply cut vehicle production in China, sources said, as anti-Korean sentiment and competition from Chinese brands play havoc on sales and threaten earnings.
China Meeting Spotlights Trump Ethics Swamp: Sen. Cardin
We can't tell if he's acting in the public interest or tending to the family business.
India-China Row Deepens as Dalai Lama Arrives in NE India
India said Tuesday that China should not interfere in its internal affairs, as the Dalai Lama began a weeklong visit to India’s remote northeast that Beijing has protested.
As He Gets Ready to Meet Trump in Florida, China’s Xi Jinping Has a Lot to Worry about
The meeting could set the tone for the next several years of U.S.-China relations, and allow the two leaders to square each other up on issues including North Korea and global trade.
Trump’s Bad Deal with China
The early signs suggest Xi Jinping will run the table at Mar-a-Lago.
Conversation
04.04.17
What Should We Expect When Trump and Xi Meet in Florida?
On April 6-7, U.S. President Donald Trump will host Xi Jinping in their first face-to-face meeting when China’s President arrives at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. The meeting comes early in Trump’s presidency, after a campaign in...
Trump Ready to Tackle North Korea Alone—FT Exclusive
Donald Trump has warned that the U.S. will take unilateral action to eliminate the nuclear threat from North Korea unless China increases pressure on the regime in Pyongyang.
China Plan to Create New Shenzhen Spurs Speculative Rampage
Within 24 hours of Saturday’s announcement that the government would create the Xiongan area in Hebei province—in the same spirit that Shenzhen and Shanghai’s Pudong was built—hordes of prospective buyers had thronged to the region.
The Big Unanswered Question ahead of Trump’s First China Meeting
After a campaign defined in large part by a pledge to turn the nation’s trade agenda on its head, President Trump has opened his presidency with a series of modest, more cautious steps
China Learns How to Get Trump’s Ear: Through Jared Kushner
The Chinese ambassador, Cui Tiankai, has established a busy back channel to Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, according to several officials briefed on the relationship.
Canada Deports Hundreds to China Each Year with No Treatment Guarantee
The Canadian government is deporting hundreds of people to China each year without receiving any assurances that they will not be tortured or otherwise mistreated, statistics provided to The Globe and Mail reveal.
If U.S. Trade with China Is So Unfair, Why Is GM the Best-Selling Car There?
Ahead of a high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Donald Trump’s White House has made clear that it isn’t happy with China’s high tariffs on imported American automobiles.
The New York Times vs. the ‘Great Firewall’ of China
The problem in China is that you never really know who is behind such decisions. Chinese bureaucracy is like a series of Chinese boxes that are harder and harder to open as you move toward the center.
The China Africa Project
03.31.17
China Spends Billions in Egypt to Woo the Middle East
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s recent state visit to Beijing is the latest evidence that China is maneuvering to play a bigger role in the Middle...
China’s Once and Future Democracy
Despite Xi Jinping’s crackdown and Donald Trump’s silence on human rights, China has a vibrant democratic legacy that may yet reassert itself.
Conversation
03.31.17
Is Hong Kong on Its Way to Becoming Just Another City in the P.R.C.?
On March 26, the roughly 1,200-person Hong Kong Election Committee chose Carrie Lam as chief executive—Hong Kong’s fourth leader since the United Kingdom returned the territory to Chinese rule in 1997. Unpopular with Hong Kong’s...
Trump Will Host China’s President in Florida on April 6
Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit President Trump in Palm Beach, Fla., next week, for talks that will likely range from economic to security issues. The first meeting between the two leaders will stretch from April 6-7.
Climate Change: China Calls U.S. ‘Selfish’ after Trump Seeks to Bring back Coal
State-run tabloid says Beijing cannot fill vacuum left by U.S. and urges west to pressure Trump on global warming
Chinese Capital Constraints Send Shock through Global M&A
Outbound deals hit lowest level since 2014 after cash clampdown
State Department Aide Charged for Hiding Gifts from Chinese Agents
A veteran State Department employee who held a Top Secret clearance and did three tours in China is facing criminal charges for allegedly covering up tens of thousands of dollars in gifts she and an associate took from Chinese agents.
China Has an Irrational Fear of a “Black Invasion” Bringing Drugs, Crime, and Interracial Marriage
A Chinese politician proudly shared with reporters his proposal on how to “solve the problem of the black population in Guangdong.” The province is widely known in China to have many African migrants.
China in the World Podcast
03.29.17
Trump’s First Test in Asia, Part II
from Carnegie ChinaWhile President Trump appoints new officials to his administration and reviews policy frameworks, Asia-Pacific leaders are moving ahead. Since taking office, Trump has grappled with consequential developments in the region,...
China Poised to Take Lead on Climate After Trump’s Move to Undo Policies
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.
Kushner Family, China’s Anbang End Talks over Manhattan Real Estate Deal
The family of President Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, has called off talks with Chinese insurance company Anbang to redevelop a Manhattan office tower—a deal that raised ethical concerns.
China Says It Has Detained Rights Activist from Taiwan
The detention adds to signs of an intensified clampdown on outsiders working with China’s beleaguered rights lawyers and groups.