China-U.S. Relations

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's trip to China has raised hopes in Beijing that Trump-era tariffs on Chinese imports may be eased as she tries to smooth relations between the two nations, but strong anti-China sentiment in the U.S. may make that impossible.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen went to Beijing with no expectations that meetings with China's new top economic officials would immediately ease tensions between the world's two largest economies.

China's commerce ministry said on Monday it would control exports of eight gallium products and six germanium products from Aug. 1 to protect national security, a move analysts saw as a response to escalating efforts by the United States to curb China's technological advances.

The new intensity and lavish scale of industry subsidisation among the economic superpowers, coupled with the entanglement of these programs in national security rationales, pose issues for smaller powers.

Chinese envoy Xie Feng's strong start in Washington and more senior meetings between the two sides are good signs. But analysts doubt the relationship can return to its former footing, with increasing disputes on a range of issues.

The world's two largest powers are on a collision course. Strategic competition between the United States and China is ratcheting up, driven by both countries' nationalism and psychologies of exceptionalism and righteousness which make it difficult to show weakness or back down in the face of perceived affronts to their dignity or interests.

US imports of some Chinese products have tanked. Others are higher than ever. How Trump's selective trade war continues to matter.

The escalating US–China technology rivalry and global chip shortage make Taiwan's role as a leading global supplier of semiconductors strategically and economically important to both powers.

Within days of each other, revealing portraits of the United States and China have been unveiled. In Washington, the Biden administration released its national security strategy.