Campaign Rhetoric Undermines Good Relations with China
The 2012 presidential campaign is speeding toward its climax. With the Obama and Romney campaigns blasting away at each other, US-China relations may become collateral damage. Life appears to be...
View ArticleMending the Gap between Reassurance and Rebalance
In about two weeks, a winner will be declared in the 2012 U.S. presidential election and the chosen candidate will work to form his administration. Whether the winner is President Barack Obama or...
View ArticleObama is China’s Choice in this US Presidential Campaign
Every four years when the US has a presidential election, many people ask the same question: who is China's choice? This time is no exception. Given a choice, would Chinese choose Obama or Romney? On...
View ArticleA New Low for China Bashing
As America's election season nears its finish, the debate seems to have come unhinged. Nowhere is that more evident than in the fixation on China – singled out by both President Barack Obama and his...
View ArticleThe Real Takeaways From Monday’s Debate
During Monday night's foreign-policy debate, both candidates sounded the same three themes on China. First, there is no inherent conflict between the United States and China and there is the potential...
View ArticleReframing of China in the US political context
A CONVERGENCE of the United States political season (specifically a presidential election) and a Chinese political transition is something that happens only once every 20 years. The last time this...
View ArticleWhat Would a Clinton Presidency Mean for U.S.-China Relations?
Hilary Clinton’s established perspective on U.S.-China relations as the face of the “Pivot to Asia,” does not bode well for the bilateral relationship, writes Ben Reynolds. The existing Clinton ties...
View ArticleScholars Prescribe ‘Head-Cooler’ for the U.S.
The US’s self-proclaimed “American Century” has led Washington to assume that it “had the right or responsibility to order the world’s affairs,” two prominent American scholars, which has resulted in a...
View ArticleChina: The Mishandled Issue in the U.S. Presidential Election Campaign
China has received little attention in the early stages of the presidential election campaigns, besides by a few candidates hoping to score cheap political points. Posturing, even if not meant...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Surge and What It Tells Us
The political outsider could be the Republican presidential nominee if the recent trend endures. But even if Trump’s surge ends, the social discontent it reflects need to be addressed by the incoming...
View ArticleThe U.S.-China Summit and the Trump Card
The Chinese must view Donald Trump like a house of cards in portraying the ugly side of America's political culture. Mesmerizing, yes, but not realistic.
View ArticleWill China-Bashing Subside in 2016?
The remainder of the U.S. election season could play out any number of ways, but it appears a safe bet that Beijing will be spared the vitriol it witnessed in recent American political contests,...
View ArticleBiden’s Decision and Hillary Clinton’s Road towards the White House
The U.S. vice president’s formal announcement that he would not run, and a lack of any other mainstream challenge, means the former secretary of state’s path to the presidency has suddenly been made...
View ArticleChina Is Escaping Mostly Unscathed This Election Season
Although U.S. Republican presidential candidates have surpassed the pugnacity favored by their typically hawkish party, the candidates have been unusually soft spoken on China this year. China has been...
View ArticleWhat If Chinese People Could Vote for the President of the United States?
Matthew Hartzell polls his Zhihu followers to see who they’d pick for the U.S. election—first from the vantage point of China's national interest, and then from their own conscience. The results are a...
View ArticleWhy Donald Trump Will Be Better for U.S.-China Relations than Marco Rubio or...
Trump’s comments about disadvantageous global trade deals with China could be considered stylistic simplifications—unlikely to be translated into policies—of the position that the U.S. government has...
View ArticleWhat the “Trump Phenomenon” Tells Us
The rise of “angry Republicans” crystallizes the polarization of rich and poor in the United States over the past few decades, and ironically they have found a champion in a famous billionaire. Other...
View ArticleAssessing Where Hillary Clinton Really Stands
In the past, Clinton has openly rebuffed the notion of a “China threat” and the “zero-sum game theory” regarding China-US relations, saying instead that the two countries should jointly rise up against...
View ArticleDo Chinese Netizens Really Want a President Trump?
Mainland buzz about the Republican frontrunner is less about Trump than it is a reaction to US attitudes about China, and his “fans” are really sending a coded message.
View ArticleU.S. Presidential Race Deviates from Mainstream Politics
The campaign roils with entertaining tactics and distractions as voters shrug off elite candidates and embrace mavericks. There is no perfect presidential candidate or perfect president, and after...
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