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U S CHINA RELATIONS

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 11, 2023
Japan proposed Kishida-Xi phone talks at foreign ministerial meeting
Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi made the proposal during his meeting with his Chinese counterpart on April 2.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Mar 1, 2023
How Japan and its businesses should respond to U.S. economic security policies
Washington's moves against Beijing in semiconductors and other fields have put Tokyo and other global players in a delicate situation.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 10, 2023
Looking for the endgame to Sino-U.S. competition
The question asked by some in the West is not “Do we want China to succeed or fail?” but rather, “How do we manage China's continuing rise?”
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 14, 2022
China Coast Guard ships enter Japanese waters
The intrusion into Japanese waters around the Senkaku chain by Chinese government ships was the 17th this year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2022
Keeping cool as U.S.-China tensions simmer
Both Beijing and Washington need to make sure the new low in relations does not become the new normal.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 23, 2022
How Beijing’s unpopularity is undermining its global ambitions
Japan needs to team up with the U.S. and other allies to better understand and counter China's attempts to influence Southeast Asian nations.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jun 21, 2022
As China's nuclear weapons multiply, U.S. and Japan work on deterrence
Washington, together with Tokyo, has been urging Beijing to halt its arms ambitions, while at the same time boosting its nuclear umbrella in the region.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2022
South Korea eyes China with growing concern
China's territorial assertiveness and bullying are becoming harder for South Korea to ignore.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 31, 2022
Global geopolitical divisions widen, deepen and accelerate
The only effective counter to Beijing's aggression is genuine progress toward — and contributions to — the economies and security of the region.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 6, 2022
U.S. threat to sanction Hikvision shows China ties near a tipping point
The move would mark the first time a Chinese company faces more severe U.S. Treasury Department sanctions that risk curbing its business around the globe.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 8, 2022
Will the Ukraine invasion ease U.S.-China tensions?
Developments in recent weeks suggest that the Ukraine war may mark a turning point for bilateral U.S.-China relations, at least in the economic domain.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 7, 2022
Japan needs a Taiwan contingency plan — and fast
In Japan, there is a new senior-level willingness to more directly align the national interests with protecting Taiwanese security.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 6, 2022
Taiwan’s fatal attractions
By eagerly embracing foreign politicians who “stand with Taiwan,” even as they undermine democracy elsewhere, the island's leaders are flirting with disaster.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Feb 25, 2022
Little to celebrate 50 years after Nixon’s China visit
In Washington and allied capitals, Beijing is no longer seen as a partner, but rather as a competitor if not a threat.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 25, 2022
How China’s leadership interprets the Russia-Ukraine crisis
China is also avoiding direct criticism of Russia to steer clear of upsetting an erratic partner, which happens to be useful at the moment in diverting Western attention away from Asia.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 24, 2022
Nixon was right to gamble on China
Critics argue that the U.S. President Nixon's 1972 China visit was a strategic blunder. But the 40 years of peace and stability between the two former foes must be considered a success.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 16, 2021
Should Tokyo boycott the Beijing Olympic Games?
The Japanese government reportedly will refrain from sending a Cabinet minister to the Winter Olympics in Beijing. But that decision has yet to be reached.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY
Dec 13, 2021
Xi's absence provides Japan with a diplomatic window of opportunity
Xi's diplomatic absence is Kishida's opportunity to shift the diplomatic dynamics in the Indo-Pacific region to favor Japan and like-minded countries' interest.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 8, 2021
Healing Washington and Beijing’s wounded relationship
China does see a global contest with the capitalist United States on one side and socialist China on the other. And it believes that history is on its side.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 23, 2021
U.S.-China arms talks may not include the nuclear kind
China is adamant that there is no need for it to join nuclear arms reduction talks. Beijing insists that the primary responsibility for such cuts rests on the U.S. and Russia.

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