Asia Pacific Oct 30, 2020

Trump’s China scorecard shows many defeats, and one big change

American companies cite much the same concerns — and the same growth objectives — with regard to China today as they did when Trump took office.

Asia Pacific / Politics | FOCUS Sep 29, 2020

Biden set to carve own brand of tough-on-China policy if elected

Biden advisers have honed in on questions about the world’s second largest economy — anticipating attacks from President Donald Trump.

Business | FOCUS Sep 11, 2020

Trump’s 2016 China-bashing playbook risks flopping against Biden

U.S. President Donald Trump is reviving tactics from his 2016 campaign playbook on attacking China, but running as the incumbent means defending a record of only limited success in rewriting the economic relationship with Beijing. Much of what the Trump team has laid out in ...

Business / Economy Jan 24, 2020

Davos sees Trump's China love as short-term affair

Donald Trump tried hard to convince the world's elite this week that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping have left their trade war behind them and they've moved on to a brighter future. But many participants at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, aren't ...

Business May 6, 2019

Trump's trade threat leaves Beijing stalling as hopes for trade deal dim

Talks between the U.S. and China to resolve their yearlong trade standoff appeared to be on life support Monday, with Beijing struggling to respond to a pair of tweets by President Donald Trump that threaten an escalation of tariffs by the end of the ...

Business | FOCUS Feb 5, 2019

U.S. trade hawks quietly seethe as fears grow of Trump falling short in row with China

One of Donald Trump's most persistent economic promises as president has been to rewrite the U.S. relationship with China. Yet as he approaches a potential deal, some of the very hawks who have cheered on his trade war already fear he may end up ...

Business Jan 21, 2019

U.S.-China trade talks making scant progress on make-or-break intellectual property problem

Ever since negotiators from the United States and China sat down in Beijing after a Christmas meltdown in global markets, Donald Trump has sought to calm investors and claim his trade talks are making great strides. But that glosses over a more uncomfortable reality. According ...