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05.08.18Hillary Clinton Says China’s Foreign Power Grab ‘a New Global Battle’
Guardian
China’s attempt to gain political power and influence in foreign countries is “a new global battle”, Hillary Clinton has warned.
Sinica Podcast
11.11.16
How Will Donald Trump’s Victory Impact China and U.S.-China Relations?
from Sinica Podcast
The U.S. election is over, and Donald Trump’s pundit-defying victory over Hillary Clinton has stunned and surprised people all over the world. In China—where activity on Weibo and WeChat indicated strong support for Trump among netizens both in...
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11.09.16
Chinese, Netizens React to President-Elect Trump
When Donald Trump was elected president, the hashtag #TrumpWon was trending on Chinese social media. Chinese Internet users speculated about what Trump’s victory might mean for Sino-American relations, discussed the broader global implications of a...
Viewpoint
11.09.16
A Chinese Observer of the U.S. Election Reacts to Trump’s Win
On the heels of Donald Trump’s election as the next U.S. president on Tuesday, Hua Jianping, a 40-year-old Beijing native and host of the popular Chinese-language “U.S. Election” podcast, spoke to ChinaFile by telephone from his home in College...
Conversation
11.09.16
How Should Trump Deal with China, and How Should China Deal with Trump?
Donald J. Trump, president-elect of the United States, spent much of his antagonistic campaign blaming China for many of America’s economic ills, and repeatedly making thinly veiled threats of a U.S. trade war with Beijing. How should Trump engage...
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11.09.16Chinese Journalists Get an Exhilarating Look at the U.S. Election
New York Times
Chinese journalists observing the election expressed surprise at how seriously Americans took their votes
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11.07.16
Why Chinese Elites Endorse Hillary Clinton
The United States, China’s largest trading partner but also its greatest geopolitical rival, faces an election that threatens domestic instability. A Donald Trump victory would confirm to many Chinese the inherent weakness of American democracy. A...
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11.07.16The Coming Clash With China Over North Korea
Washington Post
Could the first foreign crisis of a potential Clinton presidency come not in the Middle East or with Russia, but in northeast Asia?
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11.07.16China Tantalized by US Election Mayhem and Prospect of ’Thug’ Trump as President
Guardian
Experts say that Beijing would prefer Republican over Hillary Clinton who is considered a hardliner on human rights
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11.02.16
Law of the Sea and the U.S. Election
from Carnegie China
The South China Sea has been a central point of tension in the U.S.-China relationship under the Obama administration. In this podcast, Paul Haenle speaks with John Bellinger, the most senior international lawyer in the George W. Bush administration...
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10.20.16Trump Thinks China’s Leaders are Smarter. They Didn't Even Let Their People Watch the Debate
Washington Post
Once again, China was cast as the foil to expose the weakness of the Obama administration and, by extension, Hillary Clinton.
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10.20.16China Worked Its Way into the Debate on the Topic of Abortion
Quartz
Clinton's “Like they used to do in China” line might lead some to think the state no longer interferes with family planning--but it still does
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10.14.16Trump: If Hillary Clinton Falls Down in China, Chinese People Will “Leave Her There”
Business Insider
Chinese are "tough people" who would not help Clinton up if she fell down-- "They'll say 'Let her come up when she's ready.'"
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10.11.16Familiarity and Contempt: Hillary Clinton’s 21-Year Relationship with China
South China Morning Post
US presidential candidate’s high-profile advocacy of human rights has riled leaders in Beijing
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10.10.16U.S. Presidential Debate Inspires Schadenfreude in China
WSJ: China Real Time Report
Many Chinese took to social media to heap scorn on both candidates
Conversation
10.04.16
How Does the American Election Look to Chinese?
During the first presidential debate on September 26, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump mentioned China a dozen times. They spoke about China and jobs, currency, exports, infrastructure, cyberhacking, nuclear non-proliferation, trade, and North Korea...
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09.28.16Chinese State Media Say U.S. Debate Shows Vote is ‘Lose-Lose’
Bloomberg
Party paper report calls Trump nervous, Clinton well-prepared
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09.27.16Why the US Presidential Debate Couldn’t Ignore China
South China Morning Post
Clinton, Trump clash over cybersecurity, terrorism, trade, and nuclear threats
Conversation
09.21.16
What Should the U.S. Presidential Candidates Be Saying on China?
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 economy...
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03.03.16China’s Netizens Mock Donald Trump, But They Fear Hillary Clinton
Quartz
China’s internet users view Trump as a joke, and Clinton as a tougher president to negotiate with.
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10.01.15
U.S. Presidential Candidates on China
Our Presidential Quotes tracker keeps you up to date on what the candidates are saying about China, and where and when they say it.
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09.28.15China Angered By Hillary Clinton Tweet on Women's Rights
BBC
China has reacted furiously at Hillary Clinton's recent comments about China's record on women's rights.
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07.06.15Hillary Clinton Says China Hacks into “Everything that Doesn’t Move”
Quartz
The Democratic presidential candidate accused Chinese hackers of stealing “huge amounts of government information.”
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07.02.15
Who Would China Vote for in 2016?
As 2016 draws nearer, a cascade of mostly Republican presidential hopefuls have announced their entry into the U.S. presidential race. Until a successor to current President Barack Obama is selected in November 2016, Americans can count on an...
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07.01.15Who Would China Vote for in 2016?
Foreign Policy
Though media discussion of domestic politics remains muzzled in China, people there generally enjoy greater freedom to debate international news and politics.
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06.05.15Sale of High-Tech Battery Plants to China May Haunt Hillary Clinton
Detroit Free Press
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04.15.15Where Does Hillary Clinton Stand on China and Russia?
Atlantic
It's unclear how she would manage two of America's most important and complex relationships.
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04.13.15
The Chinese Internet Hates Hillary Clinton Even More than Republicans Do
On the afternoon of April 12, Hillary Clinton announced her long-expected decision to run for president in 2016. Within hours, Chinese news sites shared the announcement on Weibo, China’s most popular micro-blogging platform, provoking thousands of...
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09.29.14
A History of China and U.S. Leaders Meeting Through The Years
When the first U.S. President visited China, he was no longer president. Ulysses S. Grant traveled in Asia in 1879. The Qing empire was embroiled in a dispute with Japan over territorial claims to the Ryuku Islands and wanted the U.S. to mediate...
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03.11.14New Report Could Offer Clues to Hillary Clinton’s China Policy
Diplomat
The report could offer clues into what U.S.-China policy might look like if Hillary Clinton is elected president in 2016.
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02.15.13
U.S.-China Tensions: What Must Kerry Do?
Dorinda Elliott:On a recent trip to China, I heard a lot of scary talk of potential war over the disputed Diaoyu Islands—this from both senior intellectual types and also just regular people, from an elderly calligraphy expert to a middle-aged...
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12.01.12
Chinese AIDS Activist Endures “Degradation” in New York, Determined to Finish What She Started
Chinese people translate “New Yorker” into “New York Ke” to designate people living in New York City, including Chinese immigrants. But in Chinese, “ke” means “visitor” or “guest.” It has been a sad word in Chinese literature and poems for thousands...
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09.08.12Decoding the ‘Voice of China’ Through Media Reports
88 Bar
As U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wraps up meetings today in Beijing, it’s hard to say how her most recent Asia-Pacific trip has gone. And that’s partly because interpreting media reports from the Chinese side is more art than science.
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09.05.12Remarks from Hillary Clinton and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi
Council on Foreign Relations
As I have said before, our two nations are trying to do something that has never been done in history, which is to write a new answer to the question of what happens when an established power and a rising power meet. Both President Obama and I have...
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07.14.12Top China Paper Slams Clinton's Democracy Comments
Reuters
China's top newspaper slammed U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday for comments she made lauding democracy and implicitly criticizing restrictions in China, saying those Asian countries that ape U.S. democracy were doomed to fail.
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06.28.12Hillary Clinton’s Last Tour As Rock Star
New York Times
(With a blow-by-blow of the Cheng Guangcheng negotiations.) On May 3, the day after an artful deal to end the diplomatic crisis over Chen Guangcheng, China’s now-famous dissident, unraveled spectacularly, Hillary Rodham Clinton followed a scrum of...