Baucus Promises Principled Cooperation as Ambassador
Gary Locke’s likely successor as U.S. ambassador to China, Senator Max Baucus, faced a...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Jan 28, 2014
Gary Locke’s likely successor as U.S. ambassador to China, Senator Max Baucus, faced a...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Jul 11, 2013
Top officials from the U.S. and China met for the annual bilateral Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Washington this week, the first meetings of their kind since Xi Jinping took power in Beijing. A range of topics was...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Apr 2, 2013
At Bloomberg Businessweek, Christina Larson reports recent survey data from U.S. companies on doing business across and within China’s Great Firewall: Censorship in China is usually discussed as a political issue, which of...
Read MorePosted by Scott Greene | Mar 20, 2013
China has spent heavily to project its “soft power” abroad but has seen its image deteriorate across America, Europe and the Middle East, according to George Washington University’s David Shambaugh. He argues...
Read MorePosted by Melissa M. Chan | Sep 23, 2012
As analysts claim “Made in China” products actually profit American producers, the New York Times reports a manufacturing shift now has certain products made in the United States but sold in China. This shift comes amid a...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | May 4, 2012
Boston University professor Walter Clemens put together a piece for The Diplomat on the increasingly tense relationship between the U.S. and China. Clemens Looks at major diplomatic issues between the two states (the Obama...
Read MorePosted by Melissa M. Chan | Feb 12, 2012
As China’s vice president, Xi Jinping, prepares for his US visit, the vice minister of commerce, Gao Hucheng, has commented that China and the US should seek to fix the trade imbalance. Gao also suggested that China and...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Feb 8, 2012
In the wake of Michigan Senate hopeful Pete Hoekstra’s widely-covered ad – one of countless campaigns attempting to use U.S. insecurities about China to generate political or economic capital – much comment and...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Jan 31, 2012
Elizabeth Economy, the Director for Asian Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, writes that China needs to radically rethink its foreign policy to successfully deal with new challenges: The Chinese people now openly voice...
Read MorePosted by Melissa M. Chan | Jan 15, 2012
Following the Japan earthquake and nuclear crisis, China had suspended plans for nuclear energy until a new draft for nuclear safety was approved. There are now reports that China will launch a third generation of nuclear plants...
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