The first India-Japan 2+2 Foreign and Defense Ministerial Meeting, held in New Delhi on November 30, has drawn quite a bit of attention. Foreign and defense ministers of both countries exchanged views not only on bilateral cooperation, such as the Acquisi
Editor's Note: He Yafei, leading scholar of American studies in China, and member of International Advisory Committee at the Charhar Institute, spoke with China-US Focus host James Chau in Hong Kong on Nov. 15, 2019. The following interview transcript
The optics-laden summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came amid the unceasing stream of tariffs the White House is dousing the two countries with. This saw the leaders of the two Asian powers emphasize the ec
This is the second time the China-U.S. trade war has reached a truce. The current — and still waiting to be papered — agreement that Vice Premier Liu He reached with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is indeed a truce: China agrees to buy $40 to
I have already seen the following question from foreign journalists at several ministerial-level press conferences: Is China's economy slowing down? The spokesperson usually timidly danced around, trying long and hard to put a positive spin on the obv
George Soros, a US billionaire financier, recently published an article titled "Will Trump Sell Out the US on Huawei?" in theWall Street Journal, hailing Donald Trump administration's Chinese policy is a great achievement. He wrote "[Tr
On July 26, the United States government issued an official document for the U.S. Trade Representative entitled “Memorandum on Reforming Developing-Country Status in the World Trade Organization,” to basically challenge the dichotomous development status
While cranking up the trade war with China, US President Donald Trump's administration is also reinforcing efforts to explain its detrimental effects. In a string of tweets in late August, the president refuted the view that his trade policies were hu
Costco, a membership-only warehouse club for bulk purchases of groceries and daily items, had its first store opening in China on Tuesday. The opening defied U.S. President Donald Trump's order to corporate America to move home and find an alternative
As the Trump administration continues to escalate the Sino-U.S. trade war, there is another parallel battlefield, namely the information campaign. Worries about the U.S. falling into recession are growing, while complaints from U.S. businesses and consume
