Global Times June 21, 2023
At the moment of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's arrival in Beijing, CNN, the Washington Post, BBC and some other Western media used a grayish "underworld filter" on China, maliciously fabricating the weather in Beijing as cloudy and hazy when Blinken got off the plane. The State...More
Editor's Note: As China-US tensions have boiled over the island of Taiwan and the Ukraine crisis, Southeast Asia has kept proactive diplomacy. Global Times (GT) reporters Wang Wenwen and Bai Yunyi talked to Mahathir bin Mohamad (Mahathir), former prime minister of Malaysia, about his views on China-US relations...More
Editor's Note: A seminar on the situation five years after the US-launched trade war against China and the evolution of China-US relations, organized by the Global Times, was held in Beijing on Saturday. What changes have occurred to trade relations between China and the US? How does the...More
Wednesday's meeting between US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Taiwan regional leader Tsai Ing-wen, who visited the US under the guise of "transit," has sparked outrage over blatantly trampling on China's bottom line. Known as an "anti-China spearhead," this third-most powerful official in the US has worsened the...More
US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns blatantly criticized China when he addressed the 22nd Annual Appreciation Dinner American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham China), causing dissatisfaction among AmCham China staff and industry representatives there. Some executives from the US-China Business Council said it will reconsider whether to invite Burns...More
With the advent of 2023, whether China-US relations, one of the most important bilateral ties in the world today, can stabilize after the ups and downs in the past year has drawn worldwide attention. At the beginning of the New Year, Chinese Foreign Minister Ambassador Qin Gang held...More
Current state of China-US relations is not in the fundamental interests of the two countries and peoples, and is not what the international community expects, Chinese President Xi Jinping said during his meeting with US President Joe Biden in Bali, Indonesia on Monday, which marked the first face-to-face...More
Donald Trump's election as US president in November 2016 marked the end of over four decades of relative stability in US-China relations. Ever since, it has been downhill all the way with barely a pause. Five years have passed and we have seen two US presidents. It would...More
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi elaborated China's three bottom lines in effectively managing and controlling divergences in China-US relations — the US should not challenge, smear or seek to subvert the Chinese path and system, should not seek to interrupt or disrupt China's development, should...More
Friday's G7 summit and Munich Security Conference were seen as US President Joe Biden's debut on the international stage, and one of his brightest slogans was "America is back." Bringing US allies together to meet the "challenges posed by China" has been a feature of the new US...More
In his first foreign policy speech as president on Thursday, US President Joe Biden called China the “most serious competitor” to the US. He said the US will “confront China’s economic abuses; counter its aggressive, coercive action; to push back on China’s attack on human rights, intellectual property,...More
Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region welcomes people from all around the world, including officials from the new US administration, to visit but it opposes any presumption of guilt, senior officials from the region told a press conference in Beijing on Monday. Analysts said that China's attitude toward...More
Europe is undergoing a rebound of the novel coronavirus outbreak. Top British scientific advisors warned Monday that the country could witness up to 50,000 COVID-19 cases per day by mid-October, and a WHO official noted that the spread of the virus in Europe now is worse than it...More
Editor's Note: Although a bipartisan consensus to be tough on China prevails in the US, there are still moderate and rational scholars calling for a reset in China-US relations. Jon R. Taylor (Taylor), professor and chair of Department of Political Science and Geography, University of Texas at San Antonio,...More
Beijing. The latest poll by the Global Times on China-US relations shows US likeability among Chinese people is waning, as its "democracy bubble" bankrupted during pandemic. The poll received more than 146,000 responses by Tuesday afternoon with 31 percent of respondents saying they "used to like the US...More