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News Articles: U.S. and China

A woman walks past Chinese and United States' national flags on display at a merchandise store in Beijing.

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  • Asia

The U.S. and China announce a deal to cut tariffs, temporarily easing trade war

U.S. levies on Chinese goods will drop from at least 145% to 30% for an initial period of 90 days, while Chinese levies are set to fall from at least 125% to 10% on American goods.

May 12, 2025
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By:
  • Willem Marx and
  • Emily Feng
A woman passes by a stock index at a brokerage in Beijing, Wednesday.

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  • World

Ahead of trade talks, Trump says an 80% tariff on China 'seems right'

Trade negotiators from the U.S. and China are starting talks this weekend in Switzerland. These are the first high-level trade talks between the two countries since President Trump returned to the White House.

May 09, 2025
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By:
  • Emily Feng and
  • Steve Inskeep
Shipping containers are seen ready for transport at the Guangzhou Port in the Nansha district in southern China's Guangdong province in April.

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  • Asia

China says it's considering trade talks with U.S., but demands canceled tariffs

Exporters, importers and recent government statistics all suggest that trade in both directions is slowing sharply as a result of the tariffs. Neither side appears willing to be seen giving ground.

May 02, 2025
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By:
  • John Ruwitch
A man stands in front of Taiwanese navy ships anchored at the harbor in Keelung, near Taipei in northern Taiwan, on Dec. 11, 2024.

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  • World

The U.S. resumes hundreds of millions in security aid to Taiwan, annoying China

The U.S. has unfrozen millions in security assistance for Taiwan, with an eye toward China.

February 27, 2025
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By:
  • Emily Feng
The U.S. and China are engaged in an escalating trade war again.

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  • World

From Taiwan to technology, China ponders what's to come under Trump 2.0

Chinese business people may be able to find creative ways to avoid U.S. tariffs, but for Beijing, its concerns for the incoming Trump presidency go beyond trade.

November 11, 2024
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By:
  • John Ruwitch
Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang, winners of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1957. Both were affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study at the time of the award.

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  • Perspective

T.D. Lee changed science in China and my life. This is what I owe to him

Chinese particle physicist Yangyang Cheng reflects on the legacy of the late Nobel laureate T.D. Lee — how his ideas changed her life, and the limit to his engagement with Beijing.

September 05, 2024
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By:
  • Yangyang Cheng
Xi Jinping, China's president, during a news conference in Belgrade, Serbia, on May 8.

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  • Elections

In China, Trump has cachet but few see U.S. ties improving under him or Harris

Former President Donald Trump thumps Vice President Harris in name recognition and cache, but analysts say Beijing sees both as bad news.

July 31, 2024
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By:
  • John Ruwitch
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at a chiefs of mission reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on Tuesday. Blinken heads to China on Friday to meet senior officials, his first visit as secretary of state.

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  • World

Blinken travels to China amid low expectations and global worries of a new cold war

In a first visit to China by a member of President Biden's Cabinet, the secretary of state will seek "open lines of communication" with Beijing but no diplomatic breakthrough is expected.

June 16, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Feng
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks on the U.S.-China economic relationship at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Thursday, in Washington.

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  • World

Security comes first in U.S.-China economic relations, says Treasury Secretary Yellen

Still, U.S. and China need to work together on issues like climate change and debt relief.

April 20, 2023
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By:
  • John Ruwitch
This image provided by the U.S. Navy shows sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2, recovering a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Sunday.

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  • World

What we know so far about the suspected Chinese spy balloon and FBI probe

FBI and State Department officials gave reporters an update on some of what the U.S. has learned so far about the balloon.

February 09, 2023
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By:
  • John Ruwitch,
  • Ryan Lucas,
  • and 1 more
President Biden participates in a CNN town hall at the Baltimore Center Stage Pearlstone Theater, on Oct. 21. When asked whether the U.S. would protect Taiwan if China attacked, he said the U.S. has a "commitment" to do so.

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  • World

Would the U.S. defend Taiwan if China invades? Biden said yes. But it's complicated

President Biden has said the U.S. is committed to defending Taiwan, but Washington has traditionally stayed strategically ambiguous. Here's why.

October 28, 2021
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By:
  • John Ruwitch
Qin Gang fields questions during a news conference around the Six-Party Talks on North Korea's nuclear program in Beijing in 2005. He served as spokesperson for the Chinese delegation.

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  • World

China's New U.S. Ambassador Pioneered The Foreign Ministry's Brash Tone

Qin Gang brought a tougher style to China's foreign ministry pulpit. Now he is Beijing's man in Washington, inheriting a hard post amid the most fraught relations in years between China and the U.S.

July 28, 2021
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By:
  • Emily Feng and
  • John Ruwitch
People hold Chinese and American flags as they wait for President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to participate in a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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  • Education

‘Don’t Invent Any Viruses’: Atlanta-Area Asian Students Face Rise In Hate Speech

Racist encounters have become increasingly common for Asian American and international students in the era of President Donald Trump, with hate speech intensifying ever since the novel coronavirus arrived in the United States in early 2020, students at Emory University in Atlanta told GPB News.

December 11, 2020
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By:
  • Eva Rothenberg
Five U.S.-made F-16 jets fly over the Presidential Office during Taiwan's National Day in Taipei on Oct. 10.

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  • World

Taiwan's U.S. Friendship Comes With Benefits — And China's Wrath

President Trump's administration has deepened ties with Taiwan, as tensions with China intensify. That could be why more Taiwanese favor him to win the U.S. election, according to a poll.

October 21, 2020
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By:
  • John Ruwitch

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