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Post by Admin on Jan 22, 2017 19:09:25 GMT
Beijing is watching President Donald Trump’s early moves carefully, praying that he does not upend the very delicate U.S.-China bilateral relationship. China is unsure how it should approach the new administration. While past American presidents have threatened to get tough on China, Beijing is starting to consider the possibility that Trump might actually pull the trigger. As the Chinese government considers its response to a potentially hostile new US administration, officials have ordered the press only to publish reports on the ceremony written by central state media, according to Chinese journalists. According to the Financial Times, a copy of censorship instructions said: “It is forbidden for websites to carry out live streaming or picture reports of the inauguration.”
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Post by Admin on Jan 24, 2017 19:02:58 GMT
U.S. President Donald Trump formally withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on Monday, distancing America from its Asian allies as China's influence in the region rises. Fulfilling a campaign pledge to end American involvement in the 2015 pact, Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office pulling the United States from the 12-nation TPP. "Great thing for the American worker," Trump said as he signed the order on his third full day in office. The Republican says the trade deal would have damaged U.S. manufacturing. The accord, backed heavily by U.S. business, was negotiated by former President Barack Obama's administration but never approved by Congress. It had been the main economic pillar of the Obama administration's "pivot" to the Asia-Pacific region to counter China.
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Post by Admin on Jan 30, 2017 18:52:50 GMT
U.S. President Donald Trump's defense secretary plans to visit Japan and South Korea next week, choosing the two close U.S. allies for his debut trip abroad as Pentagon chief, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity. James Mattis, a retired Marine general, was sworn into the Pentagon's top job shortly after Trump's inauguration on Friday and a quick departure to Asia could be seen as a nod to the importance the new U.S. administration places on security ties. The trip would closely follow Trump's withdrawal from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact, fulfilling a campaign pledge but disappointing many key U.S. allies in Asia. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, for example, had touted TPP in part as a counter-weight to a rising China.
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Post by Admin on Feb 10, 2017 18:59:21 GMT
U.S. President Donald Trump changed tack and agreed to honor the longstanding "one China" policy during a phone call with China's leader, a major diplomatic boost for Beijing which brooks no criticism of its claim to neighboring Taiwan. Trump angered Beijing in December by talking to the president of self-ruled Taiwan and saying the United States did not have to stick to the policy, in which Washington acknowledges the Chinese position that there is only one China and that Taiwan is part of it. A White House statement said Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping had a lengthy phone conversation on Thursday night Washington time. "President Trump agreed, at the request of President Xi, to honor our 'one China' policy," the statement said.
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Post by Admin on Apr 8, 2017 18:44:42 GMT
It's safe to say that few people expected the first face-to-face meeting between President Trump and Xi Jinping to unfold this way. Halfway through the Chinese president's visit to Trump's resort in Palm Beach, Fla., Trump announced to the world that he had ordered a missile strike on a Syrian airfield in retaliation for an apparent chemical attack by Bashar Assad's regime. For much of the 2016 presidential campaign, candidate Trump placed China squarely in his rhetorical crosshairs, decrying the United States' $300 billion-plus trade deficit with China and calling the country a currency manipulator. "We can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing," Trump said during a campaign stop last year. "It's the greatest theft in the history of the world."
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