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US-China relations

Vice-Premier He Lifeng held talks with John Waldron, president and chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs, in Beijing on Wednesday. Photo: Xinhua

China's economic recovery

Vice-premier tells Goldman Sachs president investment will boost ties

He Lifeng has met top executives from at least five multinational companies in the past month.

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Trump to ‘disrupt’ US-China flows as law firm shuts Beijing office: analysts

5 Dec 2024 - 8:00AMvideocam

US should blunt ‘collaboration’ by China, North Korea, Russia: senior officials

5 Dec 2024 - 7:30AMvideocam

8 US telecoms firms, dozens of nations hit by China hacking, White House says

The US believes the hackers were able to gain access to communications of senior US government officials and prominent political figures.

5 Dec 2024 - 7:30AMvideocam

White House officials believe that the hacking was regionally targeted and the focus was on very senior government officials. Photo illustration: Shutterstock

China’s military drills

Amid fighter fleet overhaul, China’s military cuts its pilot training by a year

By 2026 most PLA fighter pilots could have initial flight and transition training in 3 years: US military think tank.

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Opinion | Trump’s victory a reminder the ‘end of history’ remains far away

As countries respond to global crises and challenges to multilateralism, a new era has dawned that cannot be understood using old precepts.

5 Dec 2024 - 8:29AMvideocam

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Trump picks Peter Navarro, US-China trade war architect, for senior role

Beijing-sanctioned economist who spent time in federal prison tasked with advancing White House agendas on ‘manufacturing, tariff and trade’.

5 Dec 2024 - 3:18AMvideocam

Peter Navarro speaks before Donald Trump takes the stage at a campaign event in Concord, New Hampshire, on October 21, 2024. Photo: AP

How will China policy go after Trump overhauls the US government?

Planned purge means loss of institutional knowledge and working-level communications, but there are upsides, analysts say.

5 Dec 2024 - 5:18AMvideocam

China-EU relations

EU-China rivalry and trade frictions to persist under Trump 2.0, top envoy says

Without changes from Beijing, tensions over Ukraine war and economic competition unlikely to improve, bloc’s ambassador warns.

4 Dec 2024 - 8:00PMvideocam

‘Never a good choice’: China’s retaliation for US curbs may be just starting

An expected escalation of the US-China trade war, and the Chinese public’s demand for a response, could light a fire under Beijing’s policymakers, former PBOC head says.

4 Dec 2024 - 7:59PM

Fresh comments from former central bank governor Yi Gang have painted a worrisome picture of relations between China and the US over the next four years. Photo: AP

US-China trade war

Opinion | China knows how to handle Trump 2.0

When future historians look back on China’s rise, Trump’s trade war might well be viewed as having helped to prevent a Chinese crisis.

4 Dec 2024 - 6:25PMvideocam

A portrait of the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong watches over a currency exchange bureau showing renminbi rates in Hong Kong on November 29. A weaker currency gives China immunity against US financial aggression. Photo: AFP

Chinese drone maker DJI fights to shake off ‘military’ tag

DJI was featured in a video published by The Financial Times on November 22, titled ‘Should the US ban Chinese drones’.

4 Dec 2024 - 11:21AMvideocam

South China Sea

South China Sea: Beijing submits Scarborough Shoal baseline documents to UN

Incoming US president Donald Trump’s administration may challenge declaration of straight baselines as overreach by China, say experts.

4 Dec 2024 - 8:00AMvideocam

US blasts China’s export ban on key minerals, vows ‘necessary steps’

Beijing’s new restrictions on germanium and gallium exports ‘underscore the need to diversify away from China’, US State Department tells the Post.

4 Dec 2024 - 9:18AMvideocam

China holds a large proportion of the world’s supply of gallium and germanium. Photo: Reuters

Opinion | US tech blind spot risks harming the country’s competitiveness

Policymakers have failed to implement safeguards for tech product safety, while being aggressive towards those at the forefront of discovery.

4 Dec 2024 - 5:46AMvideocam

How Trump’s push to end Ukraine war tips his hand on China, Russia

US president-elect likely to encounter difficulties given the three countries’ aligned interests in challenging the West, analysts say.

4 Dec 2024 - 8:08AMvideocam

Human rights in China

3 Uygurs freed as part of US-China prisoner exchange: report

The Biden administration reportedly drove ‘a fairly tough bargain’ with Beijing in gaining the release of the Uygurs.

4 Dec 2024 - 5:07AMvideocam

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Donald Trump’s looming global impact

This three-part series looks at what effect Donald Trump’s incoming US presidency is expected to have on international relations – and how people and governments are trying to prepare.

5 Dec 2024 - 12:35AM

China's military weapons

How China, US are using different drone strategies in race for air superiority

World’s top two military powers remain focused on traditional warplanes, but China’s ‘innovative use’ of UAVs could be the difference, analysts say.

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Chinese academics grapple with the idea of a rising East and a declining West

The notion faded from discussion for a while, but it continues to resonate.

3 Dec 2024 - 11:04PMvideocam

US-China trade war

Opinion | Why no country is safe from Trump’s pro-tariff agenda

Trump’s challenge to global trading norms fits with his agenda of undermining consensus and punishing US trading partners individually.

3 Dec 2024 - 8:30PMvideocam

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Jimmy Lai trial

Jimmy Lai says he opposed US decision to end Hong Kong’s special trade status

Any change to Hong Kong’s preferential trade status in the United States would be counterproductive, former media boss tells trial.

3 Dec 2024 - 7:46PM

Jimmy Lai leaves West Kowloon Court in a prison vehicle after his ninth day in the witness box on Tuesday. Photo: Edmond So

China industry bodies call for ‘caution’ in buying US chips amid latest sanctions

This initiative could deal a blow to the mainland businesses of Nvidia, Qualcomm and Intel.

4 Dec 2024 - 12:06AM

China shuts US out of critical minerals trade in reply to new tech curbs

China is prohibiting exports to the US of minerals crucial to tech production, with heavy restrictions on graphite.

3 Dec 2024 - 7:43PM

Hong Kong economy

Letters | Foreign talent can’t be Hong Kong’s only answer to labour crunch

Readers discuss the need for local solutions to city’s ageing labour force, ways to enliven the harbourfront, the US-China prisoner swap, and what Trump’s MAGA movement means.

3 Dec 2024 - 11:30AM

Commuters on the move in Central MTR station in Hong Kong’s business district. Photo: May Tse

Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Hong Kong must cement its national security foundations to prosper

The truth is simple and profound: the stability or disarray, prosperity or poverty of every nation and region are intricately tied to the state of its security.

3 Dec 2024 - 9:30AMvideocam

A woman visits the National Security Exhibition Gallery at the Hong Kong Museum of History in Tsim Sha Tsui, on August 26. Photo: Edmond So

Opinion | Trump’s fuming over unlikely ‘Brics currency’ belies risks of de-dollarisation

Trump’s threat of tariffs over a currency that will likely never exist is a reminder of how much clout the dollar has in the developing world.

4 Dec 2024 - 5:59PM

WTO boss urges middle powers to defend global system ahead of US-China trade war

Deepening fragmentation looms with Donald Trump’s return to White House and joint diplomacy needed, says re-elected Nigerian economist.

3 Dec 2024 - 6:28AMvideocam

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US-China relations

Breaking news and analysis on US-China relations, including trade war, talks, and tensions between Washington and Beijing.

last updated:

16 October, 2024

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