Summary and Key Points: America’s network of major bases across Asia — its biggest bet for deterring China — now sits within ...

The Beijing summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping did not ease the strategic rivalry between the United States and China. It only highlighted how deep, structural, and ...

President Donald Trump’s visit to China began with a grave warning. Chinese President Xi Jinping told the U.S. delegation that a mishandling of policy with Taiwan could lead to “clashes and even ...

For years, China has tried to cast itself as a responsible world power and America as an imperialist one. The war in Iran is helping the Communist Party support that argument.

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has presented Russia and China with a significant opportunity. Both Moscow and Beijing see the conflict as a chance to undermine U.S. interests in the Middle East and ...

President Donald Trump’s chief objective in his forthcoming summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping should be to preserve peace in the Pacific. In the long run, that will require fixing America’s ...

Now that the United States is riven by internal politics, alienating allies, and once again consumed by a war in the Persian Gulf, this seems like an opportune moment for China to wrest the mantle of ...

The agenda at President Donald Trump’s Beijing summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping included trade, tariffs, rare-earth metals, Taiwan, Iran, religious freedom, and various other topics, but one ...

For a world shaken by war in Ukraine and the Middle East, there was a faintly reassuring line in the latest Annual Threat Assessment by America’s intelligence agencies. “Chinese leaders do not ...

Trump arrives in Beijing on May 14 facing discussions on semiconductors, Taiwan, Iran and AI as the U.S.-China rivalry reshapes the international order.

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