Amid a ‘tactical pause’ in U.S.-China tensions, Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan warns of a long-term partial decoupling of the U.S. and Chinese economies if Washington and Beijing fail to rebuild trust. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/19/asia-pacific/politics/singapore-pause-us-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #singapore #china #us #xijinping #donaldtrump #tariffs
Xi Jinping is using rare-earth export controls and a range of domestic and international strategies to strengthen China’s global influence while tightening ideological control at home to maintain political cohesion. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/16/world/xi-jinpings-balancing-act-both-home-and-abroad/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #xijinping #chinesecommunistparty
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's summit diplomacy with the United States, China and South Korea has won her high marks from respondents of an opinion poll by Jiji Press. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/13/japan/politics/jiji-poll-takaichi-diplomacy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #sanaetakaichi #surveys #donaldtrump #xijinping #leejaemyung #ldp #nipponishinnokai
From surveilling and repressing Chinese citizens to firing and prosecuting potential rivals, Chinese President Xi Jinping seems able to rule only through fear. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/11/world/xi-jinpings-purges/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #xijinping #china #chinesecommunistparty
China’s largest and most advanced warship has officially entered its military fleet, boosting Beijing’s ability to project naval power amid rising U.S. concern about its assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/07/asia-pacific/china-new-aircraft-carrier/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #china #xijinping #pla
U.S. President Donald Trump appealed directly to China's Xi Jinping to free jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai when the two leaders met in South Korea last week. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/06/world/politics/trump-xi-hong-kong-jimmy-lai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #hongkong #jimmylai #china #xijinping #us #donaldtrump #appledaily
Japan’s Sanae Takaichi has appeared to allay fears of a more hawkish approach to Beijing, but her open support for deepening ties with Taiwan is likely to further complicate the already strained relationship with China. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/04/japan/politics/takaichi-taiwan-china-analysis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #taiwan #taiwanjapanrelations #china #chinajapanrelations #defense #sanaetakaichi #laichingte #xijinping
U.S. President Donald Trump said Chinese leader Xi Jinping knows “the consequences” of taking military action against Taiwan, though he refused to say specifically if Washington would defend the democratic island. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/03/asia-pacific/politics/trump-taiwan-china-xi/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #pla #taiwan #us #usmilitary #uschinarelations #xijinping #donaldtrump
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said immediate action to reduce Chinese tariffs on Canadian goods such as canola was never a realistic outcome for his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/02/carney-canada-china-tariffs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #canada #markcarney #china #trade #tariffs #xijinping
After months of tariff threats and brow-beating on defense spending, U.S. allies in Asia had ample reason to be wary of President Donald Trump. But the message after his Asia tour? The U.S. still has your back. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/02/asia-pacific/politics/trump-asian-allies-focus/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #asean #asia #donaldtrump #sanaetakaichi #xijinping #china #uschinarelations #usjapanrelations #apec #trade #tariffs #usmilitary
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Xi Jinping have held their first meeting, as the Chinese leader took center stage and reforged old ties at an Asian summit from which U.S. leader Donald Trump was largely absent. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/02/asia-pacific/politics/china-xi-south-korea-lee/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #southkorea #leejaemyung #xijinping #apec
Facing deepening fractures in the global trade order, Asia-Pacific leaders adopted a joint declaration that emphasized the need for resilience and shared benefits in trade at the end of the annual APEC summit Saturday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/01/asia-pacific/politics/apec-summit-trade-wrapup/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #apec #indopacific #southkorea #trade #tariffs #donaldtrump #us #china #leejaemyung #xijinping #globaleconomy
North Korea said on Saturday that denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, which South Korea said will be discussed in a summit with China later that day, is an unrealizable "pipe dream," according to state-run media. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/01/asia-pacific/north-korea-denuclearization-pipe-dream/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #northkorea #southkorea #nuclearweapons #china #xijinping #leejaemyung
Chinese leader Xi Jinping will meet his new South Korean counterpart Lee Jae Myung as both leaders work to rebuild ties between their two countries, after years of Seoul moving closer to the U.S. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/01/asia-pacific/politics/xi-lee-china-south-korea-summit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #southkorea #china #xijinping #leejaemyung #us #northkorea
In her first meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi put fears of a more hawkish approach to Beijing on the backburner. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/japan/takaichi-xi-first-meeting/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #china #chinajapanrelations #sanaetakaichi #xijinping #apec #defense #taiwan
In her first week as prime minister, Sanae Takaichi impressed at home and abroad through deft diplomacy with ASEAN leaders and a successful summit with Donald Trump that strengthened the Japan-U.S. alliance. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2025/10/31/takaichi-shines-on-dilomatic-stage/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #editorials #sanaetakaichi #donaldtrump #shinzoabe #malaysia #asean #philippines #ferdinandmarcosjr #anthonyalbanese #australia #china #apec #petehegseth #ldp #russia #northkorea #southkorea #leejaemyung #xijinping
U.S. President Donald Trump said he didn’t discuss approving sales of Nvidia’s top-of-the-line Blackwell chips to China in talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/31/tech/trump-xi-nvidia-blackwell-chip/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #us #china #donaldtrump #xijinping #nvidia #chipmakers
The one-year truce struck between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping is likely to only stabilize relations between the world’s two largest economies rather than resolve fundamental differences. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/politics/trump-xi-truce-buy-time/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #uschinarelations #trade #donaldtrump #xijinping
A 19th-century showdown between China and the West began, much as today’s did, with mounting Western anger over a huge Chinese trade surplus. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/30/asia-pacific/politics/19th-century-opium-war-xi-trump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #uk #opium #drugs #xijinping #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will seek a truce in their trade war on Thursday, with the U.S. president predicting a "great meeting" but Beijing being more circumspect. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/30/world/politics/trump-xi-trade-war/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #china #xijinping #southkorea #apec