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PHL welcomes Czechia’s presence in infra projects
PRAGUE—Filipino diplomats who recently visited the Czech Republic capital said the Philippines is keen on the Central European country’s role in local infrastructure projects.
China’s foreign minister urges Blinken to stabilize ties in call
Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang told Secretary of State Antony Blinken the US should stop hurting China’s security interests in the name of competition in a call before the American official’s expected trip to Beijing.
AFP, US Navy renew vow for stronger defense partnership
The chief of naval operations of the United States Navy and senior officials of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have pushed for collaboration between the US and the Philippines, including the conduct of joint training and exercises, to ensure security in the Indo-Pacific.
US downs Chinese balloon, drawing threat from China
WASHINGTON—The US military on Saturday shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast after it traversed sensitive military sites across North America. China insisted the flyover was an accident involving a civilian aircraft and threatened repercussions.
US, China spar in first face-to-face meeting
China is forcing the world to find new ways to deal with it
No demand to pick between US, China: Kim to Asian states
China-US row mars end of Apec; no communiqué
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea—An acrimonious meeting of world leaders in Papua New Guinea failed to agree Sunday on a final communiqué, highlighting widening divisions between global powers the United States and China.
For US and China, a new beginning on a rocky road
By Robert A. Manning | New York Times News Service
Xi stresses China’s North Korea concerns in talk with Trump
BEIJING—Chinese President Xi Jinping told Unites States President Donald J. Trump in a phone call on Wednesday that Beijing is willing to work with Washington on ending North Korea’s nuclear-weapons program but wants a peaceful solution.
Xi’s mission in Florida: Tame Trump to bolster power at home
Nothing is supposed to go off script for President Xi Jinping in what is the equivalent of an election year in one-party China.
China counters Trump’s trade bluster with regional economic ties that bind
If President Donald J. Trump gets confrontational with Chinese President Xi Jinping over trade at their Mar-a-Lago summit in Florida in April, the Chinese leader will have potential allies in some surprising places—namely, Austin, Sacramento and Olympia.
South China Sea update: Close encounter near Scarborough
Unlike previous close encounters between United States and Chinese military aircraft, the latest incident last week near the hotly contested Scarborough Shoal appears to be unintentional, highlighting risks in an increasingly militarized region.
China and America: The Rules of Engagement
Donald Trump’s quest to protect American workers from cheating foreigners has begun. In his first flurry of policy tweets and executive orders, however, China, his favorite bogeyman, was conspicuously absent.
‘US-China war over reefs unlikely’
Fears that US President Donald J. Trump will start a war with China over disputed territory in the South China Sea are overblown, according to Defense Secretary Delfin N. Lorenzana.
South China Sea update: Washington on collision course with Beijing?
The new United States administration is heating up rhetoric over the South China Sea with a promise to challenge China’s occupation of disputed islands. Beijing is responding cautiously, appealing for calm and direct negotiations involving claimants.
US president has 1.3 billion reasons not to pick a fight with China
U.S. President Donald J. Trump has repeatedly attacked China on everything, from trade to Taiwan, to pressure his counterpart Xi Jinping to cede ground. In doing so he risks a backlash that could make doing deals even harder. China has a population of 1.3 billion and its dominant state-run media seeks to burnish the image of the Communist Party. In that environment, Trump’s hectoring could stoke nationalism in a year where China’s leaders are already working hard to instill public pride and stress unity.
Trump’s tirade war against China
ON his first day in office, US President Donald J. Trump showed the world how he intends to follow through on his campaign promise to take a more aggressive stance against foreign competitors as part of his “America First” policy. With the stroke of a pen, he formally abandoned the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the trade concept initiated by former President Barack Obama, and declared an end to an era of multinational trade pacts that defined global economics in modern times.
Beijing to Trump: One-China policy not negotiable
CHINA’S foreign ministry said its One-China policy isn’t negotiable and urged Donald J. Trump to recognize the “high sensitivity” with which it views Taiwan, a day after the president-elect hinted for the second time in a month at a reset of US-China relations.
‘China can’t have access to South China Sea isles’
In an apparent toughening of the US’s stance on the South China Sea, US President-elect Donald J. Trump’s nominee for secretary of state said China must be denied access to artificial islands built in the disputed waters.
Trump faces mixed business posture with China
It seems President-elect Donald J. Trump isn’t interested in business as usual with China. Just as his intervention at Carrier Corp. in Indiana indicates that he will intervene in corporate decisions in cases where American presidents typically do not, his protocol-breaking phone call with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen—the first such communication since the US recognized mainland China in 1979—indicates that he’s willing to push boundaries in his effort to reverse what he sees as the US losing power to Beijing.
U.S. has few reasons to fan drone spat
For all the outrage after China seized a US naval drone last week, it’s far from clear whether it will herald a new era of confrontation on the high seas between the world’s biggest economies.
Trump’s China bluster threatens US exports and supply networks
Donald J. Trump’s suggestion that the decades-old One-China policy could be used as a bargaining chip to win future trade concessions from China is a brash negotiating ploy loyal viewers of The Apprentice might appreciate.
China warns: Trump’s Taiwan comments cause ‘serious concern’
BEIJING—China’s foreign minister warned that any moves to damage Beijing’s core interests would be self-detrimental after US President-elect Donald J. Trump said he could use the way in which America deals with Taiwan as a bargaining chip.