China

The Trump administration’s premature jubilation over the new trade deal should not be taken at face value, since the existing terms of trade are set to remain largely unchanged

The release of the Huawei executive, Meng Wanzhou, on bail will not make the ongoing trade negotiations any smoother.

Meng Wanzhou was arrested over fraud charges for misrepresenting a Huawei subsidiary, Skycom, as a separate entity to bypass the sanctions that United States imposed on Iran between 2009 and 2014

The scientific community is outraged with the prematurity and secrecy of He Jiankui’s dangerous experiment.

Instead of seeking to alter the “free-trade regime” to address the grievances of American workers, Trump, singling out China as the enemy, has declared an economic war which will hurt workers in the US, China and in the developing world

The tense exchanges between secretary of state Pompeo and Chinese officials, as well as stronger relations between China, the Koreas and Russia all indicate declining US influence in the region