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1 week ago | 
scmp.com | Kawala Xie |Laura Zhou
Newly elected South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has signalled a desire to ease tensions with North Korea, halting propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts along the border, and he has turned to China for support. In a 30-minute phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, six days after taking office, Lee urged China to play a “constructive role” in the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.
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3 weeks ago | 
scmp.com | Shi Jiangtao |Kawala Xie
The conspicuous absence of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio from preparations for the much-anticipated phone call between Chinese and US leaders – and from subsequent trade talk announcements – has raised questions about his influence in shaping bilateral ties.
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3 weeks ago | 
portside.org | Kawala Xie |Olayemi Olurin |Sonali Kolhatkar |Chip Brown-lee
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – June 3, 2025 Published June 3, 2025 Harvard Student Bears Witness to the CrisisThe Long BacklashThey’re Going Postal: The Right vs USPSBrownsville Community Does What NYPD Can’tWho ‘Invented’ Country Music?
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1 month ago | 
scmp.com | Kawala Xie |Lawrence Chung
Donald Trump’s shake-up of the US National Security Council may be a sign he is increasingly relying on his instinct over expert advice, potentially increasing the unpredictability in Washington’s approach to China, diplomatic observers have said. The shake-up could also be “bad news” for Taiwan, which may find it harder to speak to key people in the White House, they added.
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1 month ago | 
thestar.com.my | Dewey Sim |Kawala Xie
President Xi Jinping has called for countries to stand together to promote global peace and stability, stressing that “there were no winners in tariff wars”, in a veiled reference to the US. In his first public remarks since US-China trade talks at the weekend, Xi told leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean that “bullying or hegemonism only leads to self-isolation”.
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1 month ago | 
scmp.com | Dewey Sim |Kawala Xie
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for countries to stand together to promote global peace and stability, stressing that “there were no winners in tariff wars”, in a veiled reference to the US. In his first public remarks since US-China trade talks at the weekend, Xi told leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean that “bullying or hegemonism only leads to self-isolation”. Xi was speaking at the opening of the fourth ministerial meeting of the China-Celac forum in Beijing on Tuesday.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
scmp.com | Kawala Xie |William Zheng
China risks further measures from the United States unless it treats a deal by Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison to sell its Panama Canal ports to an American firm as a “private transaction”, a former US senior diplomat has told the Post. In an exclusive interview, Daniel Kritenbrink, former US assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, said that if Beijing tried to intervene in the deal, it risked “further complicating” US-China relations.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
scmp.com | Khushboo Razdan |Kawala Xie
In his first speech at the World Economic Forum of his second term, US President Donald Trump voiced optimism about Sino-American relations while warning of tariffs on companies that do not manufacture stateside. Addressing the annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, via video from the White House, Trump described a “very good” relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping, saying the two countries needed only to make their relationship “fair”, not “phenomenal”.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
scmp.com | Kawala Xie
During his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday, Scott Bessent, Donald Trump’s choice for US treasury secretary, signalled a willingness to resume trade negotiations with China and defended the president-elect’s tariff policy as a useful tool to gain leverage. Bessent said that he would push China to buy American goods, indicating openness to a trade agreement like the “phase one” deal that the US and China reached in Trump’s first term.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
msn.com | Kawala Xie
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