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04.29.15Obama Accuses China of Flexing Muscle in Disputes with Neighbors
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Obama said a strong U.S.-Japan alliance should not be seen as a provocation to China.
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04.29.15Commentary: South China Sea No Showcase for U.S.-Japanese Alliance
Xinhua
As long as Japan refuses to face WWII atrocities, the world community will never loosen the screw.
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04.29.15China on My Mind: U.S.-Japan Visit Mostly About Beijing, State Media Says
Wall Street Journal
U.S.-Japan talks mainly served to throw into relief concerns about China.
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04.20.15Shinzo Abe and Japan’s History
New York Times
But Japan cannot credibly help the U.S. to counter China in Asia if it seeks to repudiate criticism of its past.
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Henry Paulson: ‘Dealing with China’
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Speaking at Asia Society New York on April 13 with New Yorker correspondent Evan Osnos, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson explained that it’s impossible to predict the timing or magnitude of a financial crisis, but any country with...
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‘Obama Is Sitting Alone at a Bar Drinking a Consolation Beer’
Danish and Chinese netizens have just shared in a collective guffaw at America’s expense. The online lampoonery came after Denmark announced on March 28 its intent to join the Asian Investment Infrastructure Bank (AIIB), a China-led initiative...
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04.01.15Obama Expands Options for Retaliating Against Foreign Hackers - NYTimes.com
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Obama used existing authority to impose economic sanctions on North Korea, but the new order will expand his options.
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02.11.15Exclusive: U.S., China to Discuss Repatriation of Chinese Fugitives
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The issue is a thorny one, as no extradition treaty exists between the U.S. and China.
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02.06.15Obama’s Public Encounter With the Dalai Lama Riles China
New York Times
Obama previously met the Dalai Lama privately in the White House rather than in public.
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What’s the Case for Heads of State Meeting the Dalai Lama?
On Thursday in Washington, the Dalai Lama attended the annual National Prayer Breakfast hosted by President Barack Obama, angering China's leaders in Beijing who have long called the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader a "splittist" and...
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01.22.15Obama’s Top Asia Adviser: Goal is for Complete Trade Pact in 2015
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Evan Medeiros, senior director for Asia at the U.S. National Security Council, asked about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, said: "We are confident we can and we will get it done."
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01.22.15The Trans-Pacific Partnership Can Help the U.S. Counter China’s Expansion
Washington Post
We’ve faulted President Obama for his less-than-full-throated support of free-trade agreements that enjoy the nominal backing of his administration. There was no such cause for complaint about his State of the Union address Tuesday night, however,...
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01.15.15Obama’s Anti-Islamic State Push May Be Helping China Crack Down on Its Uighurs
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en President Barack Obama in September secured passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution requiring nations to prevent their citizens from traveling abroad to participate in acts of terrorism, it was mostly hailed as a landmark achievement to...
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What Will Make the U.S.-China Climate Deal Work
Nearly everyone agrees that the U.S.-China climate announcement is a big deal, but most observers have overlooked what truly makes it a game-changer: if the world’s two climate change superpowers limit their greenhouse gas emissions, it will have...
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Was the U.S.-China Climate Deal Worth the Wait?
Last week, Ann Carlson and Alex Wang, environmental experts at UCLA Law School, called the November 12 U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change "monumental." "No two countries are more important to tackling the problem than the...
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11.17.14China vs. America: Brinkmanship and Statemanship
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After Barack Obama's Air Force One touches down in Brisbane, and the American president fulfills the day's G20 obligations including the prime ministerial barbecue, Obama will make his way to Queensland University and deliver the sequel to...
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The Domestic Politics of the U.S.-China Climate Change Announcement
The news from Beijing this week that the U.S. and China are committing to ambitious goals on climate change is, we think, monumental. No two countries are more important to tackling the problem than the largest carbon emitter over the past two...
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Behind the Curtain at APEC
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With tensions between the West and Russia running high over Ukraine, China and Japan still wrangling over the Diaoyu islands, and America and China fighting over pretty much the same old petty stuff, it's easy to be cynical about APEC. But this...
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11.11.14What Brookings Experts Are Saying about Obama in Asia
Brookings Institution
Experts recently joined together in a full-day conference to examine the economic, environmental, political, and security implications of President Obama's trip to China and his interactions with President Xi Jinping.
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11.11.14Obama’s Three-Day Visit to China: Charlie Rose
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On “Charlie Rose,” a conversation about President Obama's three-day visit to China. The president arrived on Monday morning. We are joined by Edward Luce of the Financial Times, Orville Schell of the Asia Society and Chengi Li of the John L...
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11.11.14Obama’s Focus in China Is on Leader, Not Public
New York Times
The White House has also changed its approach to the Chinese news media. In 2009, Mr. Obama gave an interview to Southern Weekly, a newspaper based in Guangdong Province that is known for pushing the limits of China’s censorship rules. The...
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11.10.14China’s ‘New Type’ of Ties Fails to Sway Obama
New York Times
Nearly three years ago, Xi Jinping was still China’s vice president and only the heir apparent to the Communist Party leadership. But even during that visit he spoke expansively of forging a “new type of great power relations” with the United States.
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Obama’s Chance to Get China Right
With much of his domestic agenda now stymied by the Republican sweep of Congress, President Obama’s room for maneuver remains greatest in foreign affairs. Yet with much of the Middle East in flames, an angry Vladimir Putin threatening Russian...
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What Should Obama and Xi Say to Each Other at APEC?
Next week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Beijing (November 5-11) between Presidents Xi Jinping, Barack Obama, and other leaders from around the world, is billed as the Chinese capital's highest-profile international event...
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10.21.14China, U.S. Working to Ensure Positive Results from Obama's Upcoming China Visit: Senior Chinese Official
Xinhua
Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi saluted "new and positive progress" that has been made in various aspects of the China-U.S. ties since last year's summit held by Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping in California.
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China ‘Not Ready to be a World Leader’ on Climate Change
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The U.N. Climate Summit 2014 in New York last week passed, as expected, with public statements of intent but no sign of firm commitments to reducing climate emissions.If a deal is to be reached in Paris next year, at the latest “last hope” climate...
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‘The China-U.S. Relationship is Basically Good’
A few days ago, I was in Washington, D.C. for a conference. While there, I met some American friends. We had an interesting discussion about what seems to me to be a debate going on in the U.S. about China-U.S. relations: One side believes the China...
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09.23.14Obama Presses Chinese on Global Warming
New York Times
Declaring that the United States and China—the world’s two largest economies and largest polluters—bear a “special responsibility to lead,” Mr. Obama said, “That’s what big nations have to do.”
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Ebola Crisis in West Africa: Fair to Compare U.S. and China Aid?
When the ebola crisis first struck West Africa, China was among the only major powers to not only keep its personnel in the affected countries but to also send tens of millions of dollars in badly needed aid. The U.S., by contrast, was visibly...
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09.09.14Xi Calls for More Strategic Trust Between China, U.S.
Xinhua
Xi said China stands ready to build a new model of major-country relations with the United States based on non-confrontation, non-conflict, mutual respect and win-win cooperation.
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09.08.14National Security Adviser Susan Rice in China at Fraught Point in Relationship
Associated Press
Rice said Obama still considered China to be a priority and that her primary reason for coming to Beijing was to hammer out the agenda for the November meeting between Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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07.10.14President Xi Welcomes Obama to Visit China for APEC Summit
Xinhua
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that he welcomes and expects talks with Barack Obama when the U.S. president visits China to attend the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in November.
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04.28.14Obama in the Philippines: ‘Our Goal Is Not to Contain China’
Time
The Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement took eight months to negotiate but mere days to anger Beijing, which sees U.S. involvement in East Asia as interference despite President Obama's insistence the goal is not to "contain" China.
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04.25.14The Shadow over Obama’s Asia Trip: 3 Ways China Scares the U.S.
Washington Post
The Balance of Power in the Pacific; China’s global footprint; and friendship with Russia
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04.24.14Obama: U.S. To Defend Japan In Territorial Disputes With China
NPR
President Obama is in Japan for the start of his four-nation Asia visit. The trip aims to assure U.S. allies that they're not forgotten, even as China gets more bullish with its neighbors.
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04.23.14America Should Step Back from the East China Sea Dispute
New York Times
The Diaoyu Islands, which are of little real strategic or economic use, are hardly worth disrupting relations among the world’s three largest economies. It is time to put the issue back into a box.
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04.22.14Obama Faces Headwinds on Trans-Pacific Partnership in East Asia trip
South China Morning Post
Negotiations with Japan on a 12-nation transpacific trade liberalisation deal are bogged down, while support for it is waning in Malaysia, which could pull out altogether under pressure from business concerns. Analysts say the negotiations...
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04.22.14U.S. Department of State: Preview of President Obama's Upcoming Trip to Asia
U.S. State Department
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02.25.14Press Barred From Dalai Lama Meeting
Politico
The White House press corps is once again protesting its lack of access to the president, this time after it was barred from photographing the meeting between Obama and the Dalai Lama.
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02.25.14China Angry at Obama’s Meeting with Dalai Lama
USA Today
Beijing remains determined to limit the Dalai Lama's international influence and pressures governments worldwide not to meet the Buddhist monk.
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02.25.14Obama Meets with Dalai Lama Despite China Warnings
Reuters
The White House sidestepped questions about whether it was worried Obama's meeting would upset its relationship with China.
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02.25.14Obama to Host Dalai Lama on Friday at White House
Associated Press
China urged Obama to immediately cancel the meeting, accusing him of letting the Buddhist monk use the White House as a podium to promote anti-Chinese activities.
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What Can the Dalai Lama’s White House Visit Actually Accomplish?
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Time to Escalate? Should the U.S. Make China Uncomfortable?
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01.02.14U.S. Frees Last of the Chinese Uighur Detainees From Guantánamo Bay
New York Times
In what the Pentagon called a “significant milestone” in the effort to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the military announced that the United States had transferred three Chinese detainees to Slovakia.
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12.21.13Despite Baucus Nomination, Critics Cite Void in China Lineup
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With his appointment of Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, a seasoned Senate free-trader as his new ambassador to Beijing, President Obama has chosen an emissary who faithfully reflects his priorities with China, which have tended to emphasize jobs...
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What Should the Next U.S. Ambassador to China Tackle First?
Mary Kay Magistad: Gary Locke succeeded in a way that few U.S. ambassadors to China have—in improving public perceptions of U.S. culture. Locke’s down-to-earth approachability and lack of ostentation certainly helped. So did the...
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Chinese State Media: U.S. Bullying ‘Obsolete’
Stop being a bully, and start respecting the rule of the global village. That’s the takeaway from a November 1 editorial in Chinese state media, which castigates the United States in the wake of revelations that the NSA has tapped the phones of...
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Obama’s Canceled Trip to Asia: How Much Did It Matter?
Last week as the U.S. Federal Government shut down, President Obama canceled his planned trip to Indonesia and Brunei, where he was to have attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Bali. Some foreign policy analysts have argued...
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10.07.13The Real Threat to U.S. National Security
Politico
President Obama’s cancelled trip to Asia makes a mockery of the “pivot” or rebalancing to that part of the world and away from the Middle East, which was the big strategic theme of Obama’s foreign policy. The result is that small countries in the...
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10.07.13Obama’s Absence Leaves China as Dominant Force at Asia-Pacific Meeting
New York Times
Secretary of State John Kerry replaced President Obama at the opening of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, leaving China’s president, Xi Jinping, as the dominant leader at a economic gathering.
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10.04.13China Launches Charm Offensive as Obama Cancels Asia Trip
USA Today
President Obama’s decision to shorten, then ultimately cancel, a trip to Asia this weekend may be good news for his Chinese counterpart, who is striving to charm a region unnerved by China’s aggressive stance over territory.
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What Are Chinese Attitudes Toward a U.S. Strike in Syria?
Chen Weihua:Chinese truly believe that there is no military solution to the Syrian crisis. On the contrary, a U.S. air strike would only worsen the situation there. Chinese have seen many failures of U.S. intervention in the Middle East in the past...
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06.26.13Obama's goal in Africa: Counter China
CNN
Obama is likely to avoid any criticism of China but he has chosen to visit Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa, countries that are all relatively functional democracies, and he is likely to dwell on the issues of good governance and respect for human...
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06.11.13U.S. and China Pledge New Model of Cooperation
New York Times
The two presidents appeared eager to redefine the relationship in a way that would allow their countries to overcome their economic, political and diplomatic differences, rather than letting new — or old — crises derail progress.
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New York Times
Cui Tiankai, the country’s ambassador in Washington, is its chief behind-the-scenes facilitator for the meeting that will bring together Mr. Xi and President Obama at Sunnylands starting June 7.
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What’s the Best Way to Advance Human Rights in the U.S.-China Relationship?
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06.07.13Xi’s Not Ready
Foreign Policy
The U.S. needs to free itself from the idea that finding the soft spot in a foreign leader antagonistic towards it improves bilateral relationships. Summits like this one should be reserved for friends and allies.