November 2023

 Chinese President Xi Jinping came to San Francisco on November 14th to attend a bilateral heads of state meeting at the invitation of U.S. President Joe Biden. This was their first meeting since the bilateral heads of state meeting on the sidelines of the APEC meeting in Bali, Indonesia, in 2022. Currently, U.S.-China relations are deteriorating. The United States continues to increase trade...

 Chinese President Xi Jinping came to San Francisco on November 14th to attend a bilateral heads of state meeting at the invitation of U.S. President Joe Biden. This was their first meeting since the bilateral heads of state meeting on the sidelines of the APEC meeting in Bali, Indonesia, in 2022. Currently, U.S.-China relations are deteriorating. The United States continues to increase trade...

  Since the breakout of the COVID-19 virus, like most people, I have been homebound and not able to travel abroad for nearly four years. In this period, the U.S. presidency changed from Republican Donald Trump to Democrat Joe Biden. Although they have quite different philosophies in managing domestic issues and dealing with foreign policies, surprisingly they both have embraced the anti-China...

  Since the breakout of the COVID-19 virus, like most people, I have been homebound and not able to travel abroad for nearly four years. In this period, the U.S. presidency changed from Republican Donald Trump to Democrat Joe Biden. Although they have quite different philosophies in managing domestic issues and dealing with foreign policies, surprisingly they both have embraced the anti-China...

Mankind experienced the First World War from 1914 to 1918. The war started and ended in the then most developed continent, Europe, but it was extended to Africa, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, the Europeans’ colonial interests. One might consider that the war was caused and triggered by the conflict between the European imperial powers (empires) and then national leaders’ ambitions....

Mankind experienced the First World War from 1914 to 1918. The war started and ended in the then most developed continent, Europe, but it was extended to Africa, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, the Europeans’ colonial interests. One might consider that the war was caused and triggered by the conflict between the European imperial powers (empires) and then national leaders’ ambitions....

China-U.S. Relations, Bad to Worse From the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1979 to 1990, Sino-US relations can be said to be a moderate period. The success of the U.S. strategy of uniting China to contain Russia led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. During that time, U.S.-China relations were warm. However, U.S. hegemonic politics and hegemonic diplomacy have not been practiced...