Trump-Xi summit hopes, UN ‘manipulation’, stand-up comedy: 7 US-China relations reads

PLA fighter jets conduct a joint combat training exercise around Taiwan in August 2022.

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Photo: AFP/Getty Images/TNS US President Donald Trump’s focus on short-term deliverables and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s bid for bilateral stability are likely to mean an exceptionally amicable summit when they finally sit down, despite “unusual” circumstances brought by the Iran conflict, former senior US diplomat Kurt Campbell said in March.

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Photo: Handout In 2012, American Jesse Appell stepped off a plane in China on a Fulbright scholarship to study an unusual subject: the art of Chinese comedy.

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Photo: Xinhua The United States will face a “critical shortage” of China expertise within a decade that threatens to leave policymakers struggling to manage Washington’s most consequential strategic relationship, a report said.

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Photo: AFP Beijing is unlikely to attack Taiwan next year, given security and economic deterrents, including its belief that an amphibious assault could fail and that the technological, supply chain and investor costs would be huge, according to a US threat assessment released in March.

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Photo: Reuters The US House Select Committee on China released a report in March asserting that China is using UN budget contributions, appointments to key executive positions and strategically deployed troops to expand its reach and “undermine America’s interests and advance its international ambitions”.

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Photo: Shutterstock Beijing’s global pharmaceutical push was following a playbook seen in rare earths, semiconductors and electric vehicles, US lawmakers said, as concerns grew over the United States’ reliance on Chinese drug ingredients.

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Photo: Reuters Washington’s China policy lacks strategy, coherence and a clear framework in US President Donald Trump’s second term, mirroring his first, according to a former senior official in the Joe Biden administration.

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