US China Relations

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Given the kind of links that China has established with all major economies, it remains to be seen how effective the Quad countries can be in decoupling themselves from China. (AFP file photo)

Sanjaya Baru | Quad Quandary: Of social intimacy, political conflict

India cannot ignore the fact that Australia, Japan and the United States continue to do far more business with China than they do with India

05 Apr 2021 7:39 AM

It lays out a vision for how the United States can seize what we view as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to renew America's advantages at home and abroad, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at her daily news conference. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Will ensure that America not China sets the international agenda: White House

The comments were made in the Biden administration's Interim National Security Strategic Guidance released on Wednesday

04 Mar 2021 11:44 AM

Some nations have worked directly to secure supplies of vaccine, but others are pooling efforts to ensure success. The Trump administration said that it will not work with an international cooperative effort to develop and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine. (Representational Image:AP)

US will not join global effort to find and distribute COVID-19 vaccine

The decision to go it alone follows the White House’s decision in early July to pull the United States out of the WHO

02 Sep 2020 10:29 AM

Wang Xining, the Chinese Embassy in Australia's deputy head of mission, speaks at the National Press Club about Australia's call for an independent inquiry into the origins of and international responses to the pandemic in Canberra. (AP)

China feels betrayed by Australia’s push for coronavirus origin enquiry

The envoy quoted the play Julius Caesar in which the dictator realizes that his friend Brutus is among those who are about to knife him

26 Aug 2020 2:48 PM

Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, center, attends a ceremony commemorating the 62nd anniversary of deadly attack by China on Kinmen island, in Kinmen. (AP)

US envoy joins Taiwan president at military memorial

Washington's support for Taiwan's democratically elected government has been a chronic irritant in relations with Beijing

23 Aug 2020 3:20 PM

Senator Marco Rubio speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. - China on August 10, 2020 sanctioned 11 Americans, including senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, in retaliation for similar US moves against Chinese officials over Beijing's crackdown in Hong Kong. (AFP)

China sanctions 11 Americans in retaliation for US move

US last week accused 11 Hong Kong officials of suppressing 'freedom and democratic processes', and announced plans to freeze their US assets

10 Aug 2020 4:33 PM

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. (AP)

Trump official lands in Taiwan for highest-level US visit since 1979

China described the visit as a threat to ‘peace and stability’, while the defence minister warned against US making any ‘dangerous moves’

09 Aug 2020 3:14 PM

People riding the subway wear face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus in Taipei, Taiwan. (AP)

US health chief to visit Taiwan, a COVID-19 success story

The trip is a geopolitical chess move in US' contentious relationship with China, which considers Taiwan part of its national territory

08 Aug 2020 11:21 AM

A Chinese man is taken away after shouting pro-China slogans outside the former United States Consulate in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan province on Monday, July 27, 2020. Chinese authorities took control of the former U.S. consulate in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu on Monday after it was ordered closed amid rising tensions between the global powers. (AP)

Consulate closures an inflection point in China-US relations

Going forward, the prospects for reconciliation look dim, even if the U.S. elects a new administration in November

27 Jul 2020 6:55 PM

AA Edit | US hardens line on China

The US authorities recently also arrested four Chinese PLA “researchers” in America

27 Jul 2020 5:52 PM

People cross a street in front of an electronic stock indicator in Shanghai. (AP Photo)

Chinese companies take record 50% of global equity raising in first half of 2020

China-based companies sold shares worth $32.1 billion in January-June including multi-billion-dollar secondary listings in Hong Kong

29 Jun 2020 9:49 AM

The visit will be Mattis' first to China in his capacity as the US' top defense official. (Photo: AP)

US Defence Secretary James Mattis to visit China amidst growing tensions

The visit comes during an escalating trade war between the two nations following a series of tit-for-tat tariffs.

25 Jun 2018 11:05 AM

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said with India's youth, its optimism, its powerful democratic example and its increasing stature on the world stage, it makes perfect sense that the US at this time should seek to build on the strong foundation of its years of cooperation with India. (Photo: AP)

US 'reliable partner' for India: Rex Tillerson takes jibe at China

Tillerson said China's behaviour and action is 'posing a challenge to the rules-based international order'.

19 Oct 2017 8:24 AM

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