Yuan Zheng is deputy director of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is also the vice-president and secretary general of the Chinese Association for American Studies. This interview first appeared in SCMP Plus. For other interviews in the Open Questions series, click here. You said that China should…
WASHINGTON (TNND) — Chinese products will soon face a 10% tariff coming into the United States in a move that could ramp up conflict between the world’s two largest economies in what has become a bitter rivalry since the coronavirus pandemic swept across the world. President Donald Trump said the administration is considering a 10%…
US President Donald Trump’s threat to slap 10 per cent tariffs on Chinese goods could spell bad news for Hong Kong’s biggest exports to the country, telecoms and technology equipment, experts warned on Wednesday, calling it a lose-lose situation. The city’s academics and business operators said the knock-on effects of tariffs could mean inflationary pressures…
A spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry on Wednesday said China would protect its “national interests” after US President Donald Trump said that a 10 per cent tariff on Chinese imports could be imposed from February 1 onwards, reported news agency AFP. US President Donald Trump stated that a 10 per cent tariff on imports…
US President Donald Trump said he is considering 10 per cent tariffs on imports from China, starting on February 1, as a penalty for the flow of fentanyl, which is responsible for thousands of deaths in the US annually. “We’re talking about a tariff of 10 per cent on China, based on the fact that…
China has confirmed that Chinese Vice-President Han Zheng met the US vice-president-elect J.D. Vance in Washington on Sunday. Han also met Tesla CEO Elon Musk, now a close aide to US president-elect Donald Trump, as well as other representatives of the American business community, according to a statement by official news agency Xinhua. The meetings…
President-elect Donald Trump has said halting fentanyl trafficking across the southern border is a top priority for his administration, vowing to impose 25% tariffs on all imports from Mexico until the flow of “drugs, particularly fentanyl, and illegal immigrants” into the United States is stopped to his liking. Trump has claimed fentanyl overdoses kill 300,000…
The top Democrat on a key US House committee argued for closer Sino-American cooperation amid strategic competition, the latest in a series of rare public instances of a lawmaker calling for a more measured approach to the bilateral relationship. “We should be a little bit more sophisticated, a little bit more nuanced, a little bit…
Donald Trump’s return to the White House is set to have profound implications for China, the world and the United States itself. In the last of a three-part series, Khushboo Razdan looks at how the US president-elect’s cost-cutting initiatives could affect federal departments and, in turn, increasingly fragile Sino-American relations. Washington’s bureaucrats are bracing for…
Voters approved an Arizona ballot measure this month that promised to enhance border security through various means, including stricter punishment for people selling fentanyl and granting local law enforcement agencies sweeping authority to enforce federal immigration laws. Several provisions of Proposition 314 went into effect Monday, such as the crackdown on the sale of fentanyl….