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A file image of U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump will pay an official visit to China from May 13 to 15 at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on Monday (May 11, 2026). This will be…
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during a press conference on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress (NPC), in Beijing, China on March 8, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters With a focus on U.S. President Donald Trump visiting Beijing next month, China appears to be carefully weighing its response to the Iran crisis, calibrating what…
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. File | Photo Credit: AFP The United States and China have reached “stability” in their long-fractious relationship, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday (February 25, 2026) ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to the Asian power. “I think we’ve reached a point at least of a sort of…
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will urge Group of Seven nations and others to step up their efforts to reduce reliance on critical minerals from China when he hosts a dozen top finance officials on Monday (January 12, 2026), a senior U.S. official said. The meeting, which kicks off with a dinner on Sunday (January…
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President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (October 14, 2025) Washington was considering terminating some trade ties with China, including in relation to cooking…
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Donald Trump has followed through on his promise to wield the United States’s vast economic weight to hit back at China for its alleged unfair trade practices and role in America’s deadly fentanyl crisis. The president said Saturday that Chinese exports to the United States would be subject to an additional 10 percent tariff in…
Donald Trump has a knack of antagonising and confusing China. During his first presidential campaign, he accused China of “raping” the US through unfair trade practices. But later in his first term as US president, Trump also called Chinese president Xi Jinping a “good friend”. Throughout the 2024 presidential campaign Trump suggested he would be…
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Washington DC: The United States’ incoming Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who keeps a hawkish eye on Beijing, has used the choicest of adjectives to describe China’s ascent to global superpower status. Without mincing his words, Mr Rubio, who will give new direction to the US’ foreign policy outlook, called China a liar, a cheat,…
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Amid heightened tensions between the United States and China, the two countries signed a bilateral science and technology agreement on Dec. 13, 2024. The event was billed as a “renewal” of a 45-year-old pact to encourage cooperation, but that may be misleading. The revised agreement drastically narrows the scope of the original agreement, limits the…
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Washington: China has escalated its counter-offensive against the United States by intensifying its sanctions on American defence firms. In less than a week, Beijing today announced a second round of sanctions on ten US companies. The reason – sale of arms to Taiwan. With this, China has, in total, sanctioned or penalised 45 US entities…
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