Michael McCaul, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, urged US Commerce Department agents to visit SMIC’s facilities and check whether the company is illegally producing chips for Huawei Technologies, the sanctioned telecommunications equipment company seen as a national champion within China’s chip industry. In a November 4 letter seen by Reuters, McCaul described what…
A former top American envoy to Hong Kong has said the two US presidential candidates are both like “poison” for Beijing since neither will offer any real respite on trade and Taiwan policies, although Beijing may attempt to divide Washington and its allies if Donald Trump returns to the White House. At an event in…
A former top American envoy to Hong Kong has said the two US presidential candidates are both like “poison” for Beijing since neither will offer any real respite on trade and Taiwan policies, although Beijing may attempt to divide Washington and its allies if Donald Trump returns to the White House. At an event in…
The presidential race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris comes as geopolitical tensions escalate on multiple fronts. In the 16th report of an in-depth series, Holly Chik looks at how the next stage in the tech rivalry with China might play out. The growing support across the political divide in Washington for curbs on China’s…
Susan Thornton is a retired senior American diplomat who for decades was at the US State Department where she worked on United States policy in Eurasia before becoming acting assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs during the Trump presidency. She is the director of the Forum on Asia-Pacific Security at the…
For now, Brazil is saying no – but yes. On Monday in Beijing, Celso Amorim, special presidential adviser for international affairs, said the country would not be joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a trillion-dollar transnational infrastructure programme launched a decade ago. Observers say the announcement reflects divisions within the Brazilian administration over the initiative…
WASHINGTON — Nearly three years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war has brought no shortage of complicated twists and turns. But one bizarre new element particularly stands out: North Korean troops in the battlefield mix. South Korean intelligence first raised the alarm last month about their presence inside Russia, and since then, mounting evidence…
The double crunch could still be avoided but conditions were only to get tougher for Beijing, according to analysts. A top rate of 35.3 per cent will apply to EVs from Chinese-state owned SAIC Motor and its subsidiaries, on top of a baseline 10 per cent duty that applies to all EV imports, which by…
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has met with China’s deputy central bank governor Xuan Chengneng in Washington this week to discuss coordination on financial market monitoring and money laundering. The talks this week marked a continuation of the sixth meeting of a bilateral economic working group and took place on the sidelines of the annual…
Who would the Chinese President Xi Jinping prefer as his next counterpart in the White House? The world’s second-largest economy is repeatedly cited as America’s greatest strategic challenge. Regardless of who wins the election next week, that won’t change. China should anticipate a tougher political climate ahead. Beijing is watching closely to see how the…