Imbalances with China have made our economy vulnerable to supply chain disruptions and put us at a huge disadvantage in the global clean energy race. ...
Democratic unity is welcome against authoritarian might. That doesn’t mean signing up to everything on the US agendaIt is 50 years next month since Henry Kissinger embarked on the secret mission to Beijing that led to a rapprochement: “It is the conviction of...
In a sign of rising tensions, Beijing deployed 28 Chinese fighter jets and other aircraft over waters south of Taiwan hours after a U.S. carrier group sailed into the South China Sea....
NATO leaders expressed a new concern about China’s growing military might, signaling a fundamental shift in the attentions of an alliance devoted to protecting Europe and North America — not Asia....
President Joe Biden used his first NATO summit since taking office to join other alliance members in calling for a response to China’s growing power. ...
Analysis: Beijing may well seek to undermine Nato unity in response to being accused of posing a systemic challenge to western valuesWhen the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) was established on 4 April 1949, its mission was to counterbalance armies from the...
Communique will be first time alliance will have asserted it needs to respond to China’s growing powerNato leaders are expected to agree that China presents a security risk at their annual summit in Brussels, the first time that the traditionally Russia-focused...
After the Group of 7 summit ended in England on Sunday, President Biden told reporters that global initiatives, like infrastructure investments, by G7 countries would promote democratic values and offset China’s growing influence....
Analysis: can the west confront Beijing on trade and human rights and cooperate on the climate crisis?• G7 summit: latest news and reactionIn an extra-secure, 90-minute session, with the phones and wifi cut off, all designed to block any eavesdropping by a prying...
The president urged the leaders of wealthy democracies to offer hundreds of billions in loans to developing nations in a direct challenge to Beijing’s Belt-and-Road Initiative....
Scheme is part of wider push for G7 leaders to question China on human rights, Taiwan and Covid-19The Group of Seven rich nations are to announce plans to set up an alternative to China’s belt and road initiative as part of a wide push back against China covering...
The US president has become convinced that Beijing is the main adversary in a global battle of governance systemsThe unifying theme behind Joe Biden’s European tour this week is a country which will not be at any of the meetings and may not even be mentioned in the...
The wide margin of support reflected a sense of urgency among lawmakers in both parties about shoring up the technological and industrial capacity of the United States to counter Beijing....
Repeatedly in recent days, it has signaled a desire to avoid overt, publicly declared consequences, saying China has an interest in discovering the truth. China also has a very diametrically opposed and obvious interest....
The Chinese president’s conciliatory speech rings hollow in the face of his brutal policies Is it too late to halt the slide towards all-out confrontation between China and the western democracies? An apparently conciliatory speech last week by Xi Jinping led some...
Former President Donald Trump is demanding that China pays ten trillion dollars for its role in the coronavirus pandemic as questions grow about its role in the emergence of COVID-19....
Trump has repeatedly said China should ‘pay a big price’ for the damage wrought by COVID-19, and if it did escape from Wuhan lab it should be slammed with the biggest ever financial punishment....
Australian prime minister to visit Singapore and explore potential travel bubble ahead of summit in CornwallScott Morrison is expected to have his first one-on-one meeting with the United States president, Joe Biden, on the sidelines of the looming G7 meeting in the...
Beijing reacts angrily to calls for WHO to carry out second phase of investigation, while US intelligence split on virus’s likely originJoe Biden’s decision to expand the US investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, with one intelligence agency leaning...
Spokesman says US president’s order to intelligence agencies is attempt to stigmatise Chinese government Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina has hit out against Joe Biden’s calls for a fuller US investigation into how Covid-19 was first...
Analysis: Seoul’s navigation of geopolitical landscape in east Asia hints at limits of united front with USWhen the South Korean president goes to Washington DC on Friday, his discussions with Joe Biden about China will test the limits of the US president’s rhetoric...
Competition with China, and containment of Russia, were the subtext of Mr. Biden’s call for action. But casting the new struggle “democracy versus autocracy” oversimplifies what lies ahead....
Biden offered a sturdy reassertion of American exceptionalism and leadership, but warned that autocracies like China are anticipating our collapse. ...
World leaders will be unable to halt climate breakdown without strong action from biggest emitterThe US, the world’s second biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is now committed to halving emissions this decade.President Joe Biden’s announcement, at the White House...
Virtual summit on Thursday will be the first meeting between the two leaders since Biden took officeChina’s President Xi Jinping will attend a US-led climate change summit on Thursday at the invitation of President Joe Biden, in the first meeting between the two...
The summit with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will be Joe Biden’s first face-to-face meeting with a foreign leader since becoming president. ...
John Kerry, President Biden’s climate envoy, is pressing China to do more to address global warming. But he faces an emboldened Beijing leadership that thinks the United States has lagged behind....
Yoshihide Suga will travel to meet Joe Biden amid growing international condemnation of Beijing’s human rights abuses China is expected to dominate talks between Joe Biden and the Japanese prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, in Washington on Friday amid growing...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is the first foreign leader to be invited to the Biden White House, where he is likely to be pressed to more fully address Beijing’s threat to stability in the region....
The annual assessment does not predict a military confrontation with either Russia or China, but it suggests that intelligence operations, cyberattacks and global drives for influence will intensify....
“The report lacks crucial data information and access — it represents a partial and incomplete picture,” Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said at a news conference on Tuesday....
A desire for business as normal with Beijing is coming up hard against the ugly reality of Xi’s swaggering authoritarianismMention the Boxer Rebellion nowadays, and most people in the west would look baffled. Not so the Chinese, who have longer memories.They have not...
