US-China relations

China faces many obstacles to joining CPTPP, but a want for trying is not one of them.

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“Each country is unique with its own history, culture and social system, and none is superior to the other,” says Xi.

Will China be the carp that leaps across the dragon's gate in 2021?

China’s ability to export more goods means officials will be in no rush to rein in their strongest yuan in more than two years.

PM Lee has called for the world’s biggest economies to avoid a destructive clash that could force smaller states to pick sides.

Modern military technology would make such a crisis far more difficult to control than those of earlier eras.

A less erratic and confrontational foreign policy could provide a positive tailwind to Asian economic recovery and currencies.

While America retained its place as the region’s top superpower, its 10-point lead on China two years ago has been halved.

China’s top leaders next month will lay out their economic strategy for the next five years that will include a new ambition to ramp up domestic consumption and make more critical technology at home in a bid to insulate the world’s second-largest economy.