Britain has sent a parade of senior officials to China this year, part of a calculated charm offensive to thaw out relations with a country that looms large in a world order upended by the United States under President Trump.…
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Trump’s Dilemma: A Trade War That Threatens Every Other Negotiation With China
President Trump came into office sounding as if he were eager to deal with President Xi Jinping of China on the range of issues dividing the world’s two biggest superpowers. He and his aides signaled that they wanted to resolve…
A Crisis at a British Steel Mill Has Cast a Shadow Over U.K.-China Relations
Britain has sent a parade of senior officials to China this year, part of a calculated charm offensive to thaw out relations with a country that looms large in a world order upended by the United States under President Trump.…
With Trump’s Tariffs, Europe Fears a Flood of Cheap Goods From China
China has for years presented an economic challenge for Europe. Now, it could become an economic disaster. It produces a vast array of artificially cheap goods — heavily subsidized electric vehicles, consumer electronics, toys, commercial grade steel and more —…
China’s Xi Courts Vietnam as Trade War With the U.S. Mounts
President Xi Jinping of China kicked off a weeklong tour of Southeast Asia Monday, landing in Hanoi and trying to rally other nations to Beijing’s side as American tariffs threaten manufacturing networks and economic growth. In an essay published Monday…
Xi Jinping Travels to Southeast Asia Amid Tariff War with U.S.
As China faces off with the United States over a punishing trade war, it is under pressure to shore up its friendships around the world, starting with its neighbors in Southeast Asia. But its relations there are complicated. China’s leader,…
In U.S.- China Tariffs Standoff, Trump Showed Xi He Has Limits
President Trump didn’t seem to mind as his worldwide tariffs set off stock market sell-offs and wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. “Be cool,” he told Americans. Then he blinked on Wednesday afternoon in the face of financial turmoil,…
Steeling China for a Tariff Fight, Xi Faces His Biggest Test Since Covid
For the two men at the forefront of a trade war that has begun to rupture ties between the world’s biggest economies, the question has become who will blink first. On one side is President Trump, who unleashed a disruptive…
For U.S. and China, a Risky Game of Chicken With No Off-Ramp in Sight
A whopping increase in tariffs, followed by a whopping retaliation. Nationalist Chinese bloggers comparing President Trump’s levies to a declaration of war. China’s Foreign Ministry vowing that Beijing will “fight to the end.” For years, the world’s two biggest powers…
China Dismisses Ukraine’s Assertion That ‘Many’ Chinese Are Fighting for Russia
China’s foreign ministry on Wednesday rejected accusations by Ukraine that more Chinese citizens were fighting there on behalf of Russia, calling the assertion “groundless.” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine had said a day earlier, without providing evidence, that two Chinese…