Conversation
03.02.18
How Will Trump’s Tariffs Affect U.S.-China Relations?
Arguing that America is harmed by other countries’ trade practices, President Donald Trump said on March 1 that the U.S. will impose a new 25 percent tariff on imported steel and 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum. “People have no idea how badly...
Conversation
11.21.16
Will China Take the Lead on Climate Change?
At a time when the world is looking to China and the United States, the leading emitters of greenhouse gasses, to cooperate under the terms of the Paris Climate Change Agreement of 2015, will China now take the lead in fighting climate change?
Caixin Media
11.18.16
Is the Trump Victory a Blow to Globalization?
The 2016 U.S. presidential election ended with the surprise victory of property mogul Donald J. Trump. An outsider without a political track record, Trump defied predictions by most polls, pundits, and political observers when he defeated Hillary...
Environment
11.11.16
Trump Presidency May Spell Disaster for Climate
from chinadialogue
The election of Donald Trump may prove a disaster for the climate and especially for climate change negotiations if he sticks to the threats made during his campaign. But it may provide the developing world—especially China—with an opportunity to...
Features
11.11.16
Watching A Chinese Professor Watching American Democracy
On the morning of Election Day, I joined He Haibo, a legal scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing, as he spent several hours observing a polling station in the upscale Graham and Parks public elementary school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “If I...
Sinica Podcast
11.11.16
How Will Donald Trump’s Victory Impact China and U.S.-China Relations?
from Sinica Podcast
The U.S. election is over, and Donald Trump’s pundit-defying victory over Hillary Clinton has stunned and surprised people all over the world. In China—where activity on Weibo and WeChat indicated strong support for Trump among netizens both in...
Media
11.09.16
Chinese, Netizens React to President-Elect Trump
When Donald Trump was elected president, the hashtag #TrumpWon was trending on Chinese social media. Chinese Internet users speculated about what Trump’s victory might mean for Sino-American relations, discussed the broader global implications of a...
Viewpoint
11.09.16
A Chinese Observer of the U.S. Election Reacts to Trump’s Win
On the heels of Donald Trump’s election as the next U.S. president on Tuesday, Hua Jianping, a 40-year-old Beijing native and host of the popular Chinese-language “U.S. Election” podcast, spoke to ChinaFile by telephone from his home in College...
Conversation
11.09.16
How Should Trump Deal with China, and How Should China Deal with Trump?
Donald J. Trump, president-elect of the United States, spent much of his antagonistic campaign blaming China for many of America’s economic ills, and repeatedly making thinly veiled threats of a U.S. trade war with Beijing. How should Trump engage...
Viewpoint
11.09.16
China Just Won The U.S. Election
from Foreign Policy
The election of Donald Trump will be a disaster for anyone who cares about human rights, U.S. global leadership, and media freedom. That means it’s a victory for Beijing, where, as I write, the Chinese leaders near me in the palatial complex of...
Media
11.07.16
Why Chinese Elites Endorse Hillary Clinton
The United States, China’s largest trading partner but also its greatest geopolitical rival, faces an election that threatens domestic instability. A Donald Trump victory would confirm to many Chinese the inherent weakness of American democracy. A...
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10.19.16What China Sees in Donald Trump--and in Itself
New Yorker
Chinese observers have described the Trump-Clinton standoff as a spectacle of unfettered “chaos” that shakes their faith in the legitimacy of Western democracy
Conversation
10.04.16
How Does the American Election Look to Chinese?
During the first presidential debate on September 26, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump mentioned China a dozen times. They spoke about China and jobs, currency, exports, infrastructure, cyberhacking, nuclear non-proliferation, trade, and North Korea...
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09.28.16Chinese State Media Say U.S. Debate Shows Vote is ‘Lose-Lose’
Bloomberg
Party paper report calls Trump nervous, Clinton well-prepared
Conversation
07.20.16
How Should the Republican Party Approach China Policy?
On Tuesday, delegates to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, chose Donald J. Trump as their nominee for President of the United States. We asked a range of contributors how the Republican Party should approach China policy.
China in the World Podcast
05.13.16
2016 Elections in a Changing Asia-Pacific
from Carnegie China
With Tsai Ing-wen taking office in Taipei next week and the U.S. presidential election approaching, new players will be taking the reins in the Asia-Pacific. In this podcast with Paul Haenle, Douglas Paal discusses the future of U.S.-China relations...
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05.05.16As Trump Becomes Presumptive Nominee, China Urges Objectivity
Reuters
"We hope people in all fields can rationally and objectively view this relationship." Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said.
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05.02.16Trump: 'We Can't Continue to Allow China to Rape Our Country'
Politico
Donald Trump ratcheted up his language toward China on Sunday when it comes to the trade imbalance between the two nations.
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10.14.15'Hunting' for China at the Democratic Debate
Washington Post
Jim Webb wanted to talk China.The rest of the candidates? Not so much.
Media
10.01.15
U.S. Presidential Candidates on China
Our Presidential Quotes tracker keeps you up to date on what the candidates are saying about China, and where and when they say it.
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09.17.15“These Old Men Look So Terrible”—China Watches The U.S. Republican Primary
Quartz
"Just looking at these faces, I feel Hillary being the next president is already certain."
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09.10.15Why Donald Trump is Smart to Talk About China, China, China
Washington Post
He loves to talk about China to the point that one can cobble together a compilation of the times he said "China."
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08.31.15Donald Trump Meet the Chinese American Cook and the Father of ‘Birthright Citizenship’
Washington Post
All born or naturalized in the US and subject to jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the state where they reside.
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08.28.15How My Presidency Would Deal With China
Wall Street Journal
Approaching Beijing on the basis of strength and example, not weakness and appeasement.
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08.24.15Scott Walker Calls on Obama to Cancel Chinese State Visit
Time
Amid rising tension, a Republican calls to end a diplomatic courtesy.
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07.06.15Hillary Clinton Says China Hacks into “Everything that Doesn’t Move”
Quartz
The Democratic presidential candidate accused Chinese hackers of stealing “huge amounts of government information.”
Media
07.02.15
Who Would China Vote for in 2016?
As 2016 draws nearer, a cascade of mostly Republican presidential hopefuls have announced their entry into the U.S. presidential race. Until a successor to current President Barack Obama is selected in November 2016, Americans can count on an...
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07.01.15Who Would China Vote for in 2016?
Foreign Policy
Though media discussion of domestic politics remains muzzled in China, people there generally enjoy greater freedom to debate international news and politics.
Media
06.02.15
Chinese Netizens to Fiorina: You’re Right, We Don’t Innovate
Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and a declared Republican candidate for U.S. president, evidently has strong opinions about the capacities of Chinese people. “Yeah, the Chinese can take a test,” Fiorina told an Iowa-based video blog...
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05.18.15The Worrying Rise of Anti-China Discourse in the US
Diplomat
Forget U.S. patrols in the South China Sea. This is the real threat to U.S.-China relations.
ChinaFile Recommends
04.15.15Where Does Hillary Clinton Stand on China and Russia?
Atlantic
It's unclear how she would manage two of America's most important and complex relationships.
Media
04.13.15
The Chinese Internet Hates Hillary Clinton Even More than Republicans Do
On the afternoon of April 12, Hillary Clinton announced her long-expected decision to run for president in 2016. Within hours, Chinese news sites shared the announcement on Weibo, China’s most popular micro-blogging platform, provoking thousands of...
Sinica Podcast
11.10.12
Eighteenth Party Roundup
from Sinica Podcast
This week on Sinica, our hosts Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn are joined by Gady Epstein from the Economist and we turn our attention to the Eighteenth Party Congress, which officially started in Beijing earlier this week. As China’s capital...
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11.09.12Opinion: Meritocracy Versus Democracy
New York Times
Without much fanfare, Beijing has introduced significant reforms and established an elaborate system of what can be called “selection plus election.”
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10.23.12Candidates Debate Rise of China; China Debates Reform
Deal Book
China's presumptive next president, Xi Jinping, may wish his economy were the juggernaut many Americans think it is. He will inherit an economy in desperate need of reform and rebalancing. As discussed in an earlier China...
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10.22.12China media: Quiet on Communist Party Congress, gaga for U.S. election
Los Angeles Times
The two U.S. presidential candidates turned China into a political football. The "China-bashing" hasn't gone unnoticed in China media.
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10.22.12Five Debate-Worthy Facts about China
NPR
The last U.S. Presidential debate will focus on foreign policy and is sure to discuss Chinese relations.
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10.18.12Radio: Shanghai Residents Discuss U.S. Presidential Debate
NPR
Eight Chinese watched and discussed Tuesday's U.S. presidential debate at the NPR Shanghai bureau.
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10.17.12A Time-honored Tradition: Election Year and China-bashing
Washington Post
China's two decade explosive growth overshadows a struggling corruption-plagued communist state.
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10.16.12China and Its Trade Tactics are Coming to the Debates
New York Times
China's economic relations with U.S. could feature hotly in next Presidential debate.
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10.15.12Romney Can Invoke Japan Overtaking China as U.S. Lender
Bloomberg
China is poised to lose its place as the U.S.’s biggest creditor for the first time since the height of the financial crisis, blunting one of Mitt Romney’s favored attacks in the presidential campaign.
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10.15.12American Politics and Chinese Data
Deal Book
In the midst of increasingly heated election rhetoric about China, Beijing has released some important economic data as its currency hits record highs. Both Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul D. Ryancriticized...
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10.13.12Ryan Criticizes Obama Administration China Policy
New York Times
Romney Republican running mate slams President for delaying report on currency manipulation.
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10.10.12As Romney Repeats Trade Message, Bain Maintains China Ties
New York Times
China-related holdings by funds in which Mr. Romney has invested are a reminder of how he inhabits two worlds.
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10.04.12What the U.S. Presidential Debate Looked Like From China
Atlantic
Chinese netizens shared mixed views of the U.S. election, some cynical, some optimistic.