The China Africa Project
04.15.19A Conservative American View on U.S.-China-Africa Relations
Colonel Chris Wyatt, Director of African Studies at the U.S. Army War College, joins Eric and Cobus to discuss a conservative U.S. foreign policy outlook regarding Africa and his views on Chinese engagement on the continent.
China in the World Podcast
04.15.19Susan Thornton on a Crisis in U.S.-China Relations
from Carnegie China
Over three years into Trump’s presidency, U.S.-China trade and economic issues remain unresolved while security concerns are creeping into the bilateral agenda. Thornton contends that Washington and Beijing should quickly agree on an initial trade...
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03.01.18As Xi Tightens His Grip on China, U.S. Sees Conflict Ahead
New York Times
A few weeks after Stephen K. Bannon left the White House in August, he was invited to a dinner at the Council on Foreign Relations to discuss American policy toward China.
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08.01.17Top Senate Democrat Urges Trump to Block China Deals over North Korea
Reuters
The top Democrat in the Senate on Tuesday called on President Donald Trump to block Chinese investments in the United States in an effort to pressure China “to help rein in North Korea’s threatening and destabilizing behavior.”
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12.23.16Stoking Tensions with China
New York Times
No relationship is more vital to international stability than that between the United States and China, but now there are dangerous new uncertainties
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12.22.16The Trouble With Trumps Dangerous Instincts on China
New Yorker
The President-elect has shown that his instinct is to turn the world’s significant bilateral relationships into frighteningly spectacular reality TV
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12.20.16Drone Diplomacy
Vice News
Trump's tweets at China over a drone are intensifying an already strained relationship
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12.20.16Chinese Navy Returns Seized Underwater Drone to U.S.
New York Times
A Chinese vessel returned the submersible drone to a United States Navy ship in international waters off the Philippines, near where it was taken
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12.20.16China’s State Media Has Been Mocking Donald Trump’s ‘Unpresidented’ Tweet
Time
"Trump is not behaving as a President who will become master of the White House in a month"
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12.20.16U.S. Demands Return of Drone Seized by Chinese Warship
New York Times
The episode threatens to increase tensions in a region already fraught with great-power rivalries
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12.20.16President Obama Says Donald Trump Should Deal Cautiously With Taiwan, China
Wall Street Journal
President warns successor to think through the consequences of his actions
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12.20.16Where Trump Does (and Doesn’t) Have Leverage with China
Harvard Business Review
Trump must keep his trade demands on Beijing specific and legitimate. The question is, does he have the discipline?
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12.20.16Trump Aide Plays Down Prospect of Upending 'One China' Policy
CNBC
Trump aide Reince Priebus: "We are not suggesting that we're revisiting 'one China' policy right now,"
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12.19.16Trump’s and Xi’s Differences Magnify Uncertainties Between U.S. and China
New York Times
Both came to power vowing to restore their nations to greatness...but that's where the similarities end
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12.19.16As Trump Tweets, China Quietly Weights Options to Retaliate
Bloomberg
China’s leaders are biting their tongues as U.S. President-elect Trump uses Twitter to rattle relations between the world’s biggest economies
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12.14.16For China’s State Media, Trump Victory Can’t Cure the ‘American Disease’
New York Times
China’s ruling elite seems to be consoling itself with the idea that Trump will take charge of a country staggering into decline and disunion
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12.14.16‘Friends Forever’? China Wary of Rex Tillerson Wooing Away Russia
Guardian
Trump will have close ties to Moscow via its Secretary of State, but relations with Beijing are frosty. Could Sino-Russian ties be under threat?
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12.13.16China’s Richest Man Threat to Trump ’Should Things Be Handled Poorly’
Quartz
Wang Jianlin says 20,000 American jobs and $10 billion in investment are at stake
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12.13.16If Donald Trump Pushes, How China Could Push Back
New York Times
Here are five ways the Chinese could make life difficult for a Trump administration
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12.12.16Beijing Concerned by Trump Questioning ‘One China’ Policy on Taiwan
Wall Street Journal
President-elect Donald Trump questioned U.S. support for the idea that mainland China and Taiwan are part of ‘one China’
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12.08.16What Taiwan’s Leader Sees in Donald Trump
New Yorker
Taiwanese President Tsai's call to President-elect Trump, which riled both Washington and Beijing, suggests a hidden streak of boldness
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12.07.16Trump Picks Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad as Beijing Ambassador
Washington Post
Branstad has extensive ties to China and a personal friendship with Chinese President Xi Jinping
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12.06.16Trump’s China Tweets are Just Tough Talk
Guardian
A trade war would be damaging for the US, and the president-elect is likely to need Beijing’s help with North Korea. Wait until he’s in office
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12.05.16After the Call: Does Taiwan Have a Plan for the Trump Years?
Diplomat
What is Taiwan looking for from Donald Trump?
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12.05.16China Says Trump Clear About Taiwan, in Touch with His Team
Reuters
"The whole world knows about the Chinese government's position on the Taiwan issue. I think President-elect Trump and his team are also clear"
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12.05.16How China Could React to Trump’s Taunts: Best Case to Worst Case Scenarios
Quartz
In the wake of #TaiwanFreakout and the latest Twitter-storm, here’s a range of things Beijing could do, from the shrug-worthy to the downright terrifying
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12.02.16China Seizes Opening in U.S. Backyard as Trump Upends Policy
Bloomberg
As Trump weighs plans to tear up trade deals and deport illegal migrants from Latin America, China's Xi is moving swiftly to reset relations in America’s backyard
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12.01.16China’s Dalian Wanda Group Faces Renewed U.S. Regulatory Scrutiny
Wall Street Journal
Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer raises concerns over Chinese conglomerate’s Hollywood takeovers
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11.30.16Michael Flynn, a Top Trump Adviser, Ties China and North Korea to Islamists
New York Times
Flynn believes China and N. Korea are allied with militant Islamists bent on imposing their religious ideology worldwide
Media
05.20.15China Liked TPP—Until U.S. Officials Opened Their Mouths
After a brief but frightening setback for proponents, U.S. congressional leaders looked set on May 13 to pass legislation for an eventual up-or-down (“fast-track”) vote on what would be one of the world’s largest trade accords, the U.S.-led Trans-...
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05.18.15Reports
04.01.15Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China
Council on Foreign Relations
China represents and will remain the most significant competitor to the United States for decades to come. As such, the need for a more coherent U.S. response to increasing Chinese power is long overdue. Because the American effort to “integrate”...
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06.23.14China Threat: Air-Sea Battle vs. Offshore Control?
Defense News
There are doubts in Washington that a US president would ever approve the bombing of China. This notion demonstrates that the Pentagon’s Air-Sea Battle operational concept is seriously flawed, said T.X. Hammes, a senior researcher at the department’...
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09.05.12To Chinese, Obama and Romney Aren’t So Different
Bloomberg
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s promise to get tough with China may fall on receptive ears in the U.S., but in China his vow has barely registered, much less caused alarm. Unlike in 2008, when the Chinese media and bloggers...
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08.27.12Bush Brother Causes Stir in China With Communist Party Joke
WSJ: China Real Time Report
Known in China and elsewhere mainly for being the younger brother of the 43rd president of U.S. and the son of the 41st, Neil Bush is by no means the most famous American user of Sina’s Corp.’s Weibo microblogging service. On Monday,...
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02.01.12Fostering Greater Chinese Investment in the United States
He Jianan
Council on Foreign Relations
China’s outward investment has substantial room to grow, and the United States has the potential to capture a larger share of it—an outcome that would benefit the U.S. and Chinese economies and strengthen the bilateral economic relationship. China...