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As the United States battles foreign disinformation and manipulation ahead of its November elections, a senior State Department official has said that Washington might have some hope of cooperation with [...]

Shortly after 5pm on Thursday, former US president and likely Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump notched another first for the record books. After a surprisingly short nine hours of deliberation, [...]

Ah Sheng boarded a chartered bus in Manhattan’s Chinatown with several dozen 60-plus Chinese headed for Resorts World Catskills casino in Monticello, north of New York, a four-hour round trip [...]

The European Union as well as lawmakers from the United States, the United Kingdom and other democracies criticised mainland China’s extensive military exercises around Taiwan, warning that the drills threatened [...]

When asked what it was like being vice-president under then-Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian, Annette Lu once responded that she felt like wallpaper. Few expect vice-president-elect Hsiao Bi-khim to adorn the [...]

A Chinese billionaire has been sentenced to seven months in prison by a federal court in New York for making shadow political donations as well as committing immigration fraud and [...]

Auctioneer David Kleiweg de Zwaan intonated, gesticulated, congratulated as he nudged up the price of a Chinese 18th-century “large and magnificent imperial” zitan mirror stand from its US$50,000 starting price. [...]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China this week to meet Foreign Minister Wang Yi on a “range of bilateral, regional and global issues”, including unfair trade [...]

China must be pressured to address the global supply of fentanyl and its ingredient chemicals, by further economic sanctions if necessary, as the “scourge” kills more Americans annually than died [...]

The sooner the US and China accept the fact that they have common interests, the better it will be both for the respective nations and for the wider world, analysts [...]

US President Joe Biden, who held a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr at the White House, said their trilateral summit represented a [...]

US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida were to unveil nearly six dozen “deliverables” insecurity, economic and people-to-people areas, senior Biden administration officials said hours before the [...]

Fewer than three in 10 Americans support the bill the US House of Representatives passed this month that would ban TikTok, the short-video sharing app, if its Chinese owner does [...]

After inventing a system to counter ransomware, Paul Lewis started data protection company Calamu in 2019 at his kitchen table in the US state of New Jersey. Over the past [...]

After receiving a tip in mid-­January, police in northern California checked on a house to find a 27-year-old Google ­software engineer and Chinese national with “blood on his ­clothing, his [...]

China’s economy is gaining momentum towards recovery and high-quality development as it becomes a “modern socialist country in all respects”, a senior Chinese diplomat has said, even as he denigrated [...]

Health of American consumers is highly vulnerable to a torrent of Chinese goods entering the country through a loophole allowing shipments under US$800 to bypass import tariffs, most safety inspections [...]

China enjoys the best of both worlds, benefiting from the global stability that the United States has fostered even as it undermines that stability in areas where it suits its [...]

The United States and China have a shared interest in sitting down to discuss automated weapons, artificial intelligence (AI) and their potential abuses. Less clear is whether the two AI [...]

Scage, a start-up vehicle maker, repurposed a Nanjing diesel lorry factory in 2019 into a plant making clean-energy trucks. Now its founders are hoping for another transformation as they try [...]

The US and China made progress in last week’s talks in Thailand on starting a dialogue in “the spring” on the responsible use of artificial intelligence, Washington’s top national security [...]

US export investment restrictions introduced in August to blunt China’s access to key technologies were promising but must be vastly tightened to close loopholes, including financial support for indigenous Chinese [...]

China’s top diplomat in the United States delivered a gracious speech marking the 45th anniversary of US-China relations that couched a tough message: do not mess with Taiwan. “Today, the [...]

Taiwan’s election result cannot change the “basic fact” that there is only one China and that Taiwan is part of it. That is Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s message to the [...]

US President Joe Biden and his top diplomat sought to reassure Beijing in the immediate aftermath of Saturday’s sensitive Taiwan presidential election that saw William Lai Ching-te brought to power [...]

The United States cannot predict what China’s reaction will be to the outcome of Taiwan’s election tomorrow, but has warned Beijing repeatedly that Washington opposes any outside interference, a senior [...]

As Beijing braces for a possible victory by another independence-leaning president in Taiwan’s election next Saturday, it faces a fundamental dilemma: how to show its grave displeasure at what it [...]

It is a year old, still finding its feet and making a lot of noise. As the US House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party approaches its anniversary on [...]

Henry Alfred Kissinger, the American diplomat, consultant and politician who served as US Secretary of State and National Security Adviser under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, [...]

A majority of Taiwanese do not view the US as a “trustworthy” country, a recent survey has found, despite most respondents saying they believe in Washing­ton’s security commitment to the [...]

Last week’s meeting between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden met the very low expectations that both sides telegraphed well in advance, effectively hitting the pause button on deteriorating bilateral relations [...]

China and the United States agreed to work together on ­narcotics ­control and artificial intelligence and resume military­-military ­communication, Beijing said, summing up long-awaited talks between President Xi Jinping and [...]

Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the four-hour meeting between President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart, Joe Biden, at the Filoli estate outside San Francisco, was “historic”, “comprehensive” and “in-depth”, [...]

Already low expectations for “deliverables” at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco took a further blow on the eve of the meeting between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden [...]

San Francisco, famous for protests dating back to the anti-war movements of the 1960s, greeted the summit with a resounding show of democracy, not least among the Chinese population. The [...]

Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po has promised to attract more American companies to the city and use his attendance at the high-powered Apec summit in the United States to dispel [...]

When Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Washington late last month in advance of today’s presidential summit, sources say he “scoffed” when asked about establishing military-military guardrails, countering that the best [...]

Economic growth in the ­Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation region will fall behind the rest of the world in coming years as China slows, demographics bite and supply chains readjust, according to [...]

In a landmark agreement set to be announced at Wednesday’s much-awaited bilateral meeting, presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden are poised to pledge a ban on the use of artificial [...]

China and the US have agreed to improve cooperation on climate change and global debt relief, the result of two days of talks in San Francisco between US Treasury Secretary [...]

In the latest evidence of a modest thaw in United States-China ­relations ahead of a meeting between President Xi Jinping and his American counterpart Joe Biden later this month in [...]

When President Xi Jinping and US President Biden sit down in San Francisco in two weeks, among the most contentious issues on the agenda is likely to be the increasingly [...]

China would focus on helping effect a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza, ensure humanitarian aid flows to Palestinians and push for a political settlement based on a two-state solution, Beijing’s [...]

The United Nations General Assembly has elected China to the Human Rights Council in an uncontested vote and denied Russia a seat in the wake of its 2022 invasion of [...]

In another sign of the dismal state of US-China relations, public espionage disclosures have increased markedly in recent months on both sides of the Pacific as spy agencies that once [...]

China is a champion of the ­developing world that offers an alternative to the current ­“hegemonic” system, Vice-President Han Zheng said at the United Nations, urging less developed countries to [...]

Beijing has lashed out at Taiwan and, indirectly, the United States over the self-ruled island’s attempted involvement in the United Nations General Assembly as the world’s leaders gather in New [...]

Washington was determined to make further improvements in its diplomatic relations with Beijing but was equally concerned at the lack of progress in expanding communication between the two militaries, US [...]

President Xi Jinping is expected to skip the Group of 20 meeting in New Delhi next week, media outlets reported, citing anonymous sources within several governments. The decision, if confirmed, [...]

The extended absence from public view of Foreign Minister Qin Gang could have a deleterious effect on US-China relations if it stretches much longer, given the delicate diplomatic dance under [...]