Top arts institutions in New York and Washington are keen to seek business opportunities with their Asian counterparts despite worsening US-China tensions, according to Hong Kong arts hub CEO Betty Fung Ching Suk-yee. Since US President Donald Trump took office in January, he has imposed steep tariffs on Chinese products and threatened even more, and…
China’s foreign ministry has accused the United States of launching a smear campaign, following the release of updates to the US-China relations fact sheet on the US State Department’s website. Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said the changes – which focused on the US trade deficit and competitive relations between the two countries – were “distorting…
Hong Kong’s M+ museum has signed an agreement with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York to collaborate in several areas in the first such deal between the famed US institution and an Asian counterpart, which comes amid escalating geopolitical tensions. Separately, the visual arts museum in the West Kowloon Cultural District said…
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If Donald Trump adopts a “hostile” approach toward Beijing in his second term as US president, China has many tools in its toolbox to respond, a former top US official on China policy said this week. Rick Waters, who until last year served in Joe Biden’s administration as US deputy assistant secretary of state for…