Category: China-US News

GOP Reps Urge Biden to Pursue a Formal Free Trade Agreement With Taiwan

Almost two dozen GOP House representatives urged President Joe Biden to pursue a formal free trade agreement with Taiwan, citing economic and national security benefits amid influence from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Indo-Pacific region. In a letter on Monday, the lawmakers asked the Biden administration to submit for Senate approval a formal…


US Sanctions Two More Chinese Officials Over Xinjiang Abuses

The United States on March 22 announced sanctions on two more Chinese officials in connection with serious human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region, where Washington says ethnic Muslims are the victims of genocide. The U.S. Treasury Department named the officials as Wang Junzheng, secretary of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), and Chen Mingguo,…


Burma Becomes New Front for US-China Confrontation as CCP Seeks to Regain Influence: Expert

Commentary Daisuke Kondo, a China expert in Japan, recently wrote an article about how Burma is as important to the United States and China as Taiwan is to these two powers. According to Kondo, the situation in Burma now deserves even more attention as Beijing is trying to regain the influence it lost on Burma…


US Government Should Further Limit Investments in China: Panel

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration took swift actions in its final months to ban investments in communist Chinese military companies, in an effort to curb Beijing’s access to the lucrative U.S. stock market. However, more work needs to be done to protect U.S. capital markets and critical technologies, according to a panel of China experts. There’s a need to…


Chinese Media Spin US-China Spat in Alaska as Diplomatic Win for Beijing

China’s state-controlled media are on the offensive after top Biden officials and their Chinese counterparts clashed during their first in-person talks in Alaska. The two-day meeting, covering an array of issues that have strained relations between the two countries, got off to a rocky start on March 18, with the Chinese officials reacting angrily to…


How Chinese Communist Media Spin the Open Clash at the US-China Talks

Commentary There was no doubt that the U.S.-China talks, which began on March 18, would be very difficult despite the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Ministry of Foreign Affairs, repeatedly calling it a “high-level strategic dialogue.” However, as soon as the talks began, the Chinese Foreign Ministry immediately changed its tone from dialogue to confrontation. At…


Opinion: How Chinese Communist Media Spin the Open Clash at the US-China Talks

Commentary There was no doubt that the U.S.-China talks, which began on March 18, would be very difficult despite the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Ministry of Foreign Affairs, repeatedly calling it a “high-level strategic dialogue.” However, as soon as the talks began, the Chinese Foreign Ministry immediately changed its tone from dialogue to confrontation. At…


Can the New US Administration Break Free From the Dual Forces of China and North Korea?

Commentary The recent visit to South Korea by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin during the Quad “2+2” Security Dialogue brought up the issue of the North Korean nuclear threat. Whether the new U.S. administration will return to the game manipulated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) more than…


Opinion: US Falls Into 4 Traps Set by the CCP in US-China Talks

Commentary Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska, recorded a temperature as low as -18 degrees Celsius (nearly zero degrees Fahrenheit) in the early morning. A two-day high-level talk between the United States and China has just ended in this frigid place. The high pitch of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “wolf warriors” howl and the…


US Falls Into 4 Traps Set by the CCP in US-China Talks

Commentary Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska, recorded a temperature as low as -18 degrees Celsius (nearly zero degrees Fahrenheit) in the early morning. A two-day high-level talk between the United States and China has just ended in this frigid place. The high pitch of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “wolf warriors” howl and the…