US - China relations

U.S. Secretary of State

26 Apr 2024 5 4

Xi Jinping

Inserted 5 days ago

“I proposed mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation to be the three overarching principles. They are both lessons learned from the past and a guide for the future.”

President of the People's Republic of China

26 Apr 2024 3 2

Xie Tao

Inserted 5 days ago

“China knows that it likely has little room to sway the United States on trade. The Chinese government seems to be putting its focus on people-to-people exchanges. The Chinese government is really investing a lot of energy in shaping the future generation of Americans' view of China.”

Dean of the School of International Relations and Diplomacy at Beijing Foreign Studies University

26 Apr 2024 4 2

Yi Wang

Inserted 5 days ago

“The United States has adopted an endless stream of measures to suppress China's economy, trade, science and technology. This is not fair competition but containment, and is not removing risks but creating risks.”

State Councillor and China's foreign minister

26 Apr 2024 3 5

Antony Blinken

Inserted 5 days ago

“China alone is producing more than 100 percent of global demand for products like solar panels and electric vehicles, and was responsible for one-third of global production but only one-tenth of global demand. This is a movie that we've seen before, and we know how it ends. With American businesses shuttered and American jobs lost.”

U.S. Secretary of State

26 Apr 2024 7 6

Antony Blinken

Inserted 5 days ago

“Russia would struggle to sustain its assault on Ukraine without China's support. I made clear that if China does not address this problem, we will.”

U.S. Secretary of State

26 Apr 2024 3 4

Chen Jining

Inserted 5 days ago

“Whether China and the U.S. choose cooperation or confrontation, it affects the well-being of both peoples, of both nations, and also the future of humanity.”

Communist Party chief in Shanghai

25 Apr 2024 5 3

Aleksey Kushch

Inserted 6 days ago

“By including the Ukraine package in a bill that also provides military aid to Israel and Taiwan, the US shows the world that it equals Ukraine's and Israel's archenemies - Russia and Iran. This is a mighty geopolitical slap for China. As the trade turnover between Russia and China rose to $240bn last year, the more the US pushes Beijing, the more discounts for oil and gas China gets from Russia.”

Kyiv-based analyst

25 Apr 2024 9 6

Xie Feng

Inserted 1 week ago

“China does not gamble on the United States to lose, interfere in its internal affairs, or interfere in the U.S. election, and is willing to be a partner and friend with the United States. If the United States continues to interfere in China's internal affairs and harm China's interests on issues related to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet, and the South China Sea, how can we maintain the bottom line of bilateral relations no matter how many 'guardrails' are set up?”

China's ambassador to the United States

21 Apr 2024 6 2

Li Qiang

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“U.S. should refrain from turning economic and trade issues into political or security issues and view the issue of production capacity from a market-oriented and global perspective. The development of China's clean energy sector, where overcapacity concerns are felt most acutely, will support the global energy transition.”

Chinese Premier

07 Apr 2024 4 2

Janet Yellen

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“While we have more to do, I believe that, over the past year, we have put our bilateral relationship on more stable footing. This has not meant ignoring our differences or avoiding tough conversations. It has meant understanding that we can only make progress if we directly and openly communicate with one another.”

United States Secretary of the Treasury

07 Apr 2024 2 2

Janet Yellen

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“China is too large to export its way to rapid growth and would benefit by reducing excess industrial capacity which is pressuring other economies. Overcapacity isn't a new problem, but it has intensified, and we're seeing emerging risks in new sectors.”

United States Secretary of the Treasury

05 Apr 2024 4 3

Xi Jinping

Inserted 1 month ago

“China is building a first-class business environment that is market oriented. In traditional areas like trade and new ones such as climate change and artificial intelligence, China and the United States should become boosters for each other's development, not obstructions on each other.”

President of the People's Republic of China

27 Mar 2024 5 2

Eswar Prasad

Inserted 2 months ago

“These trips have considerable significance for preventing any further escalation of hostilities, especially as election year rhetoric in the U.S. ramps up. I think both sides are very eager to tamp down any further escalation of hostilities.”

Cornell University professor and former head of the International Monetary Fund’s China division

05 Feb 2024 1 3

Nicholas Kristof

Inserted 3 months ago

“There is a fine line between deterring China and provoking it. My take is that while we should do significantly more to help Taiwan boost defenses and deter aggression, we should do so quietly, without needlessly humiliating China. Sometimes Americans loudly embrace Taiwan in ways that inflame tensions at times when we should be hoping to lower them. Let me also make the case that we think too much in terms of an invasion - when the greater risk may be China's taking lesser nibbles to pressure Taiwan, leading to the possibility of accidents and escalation that could drag us into an unintended world war, as happened in 1914.”

NY Times columnist, author

27 Jan 2024 3 3

John Kirby

Inserted 8 months ago

“We've never shied away from calling it like we see it when it comes to [China's] behaviour, intimidation and coercion of not only their neighbours but countries around the world. This is a difficult, complex bilateral relationship, the most consequential one in the world. The president understands that. But that doesn't mean there isn't still a need to continue to improve our lines of communication.”

White House national security spokesperson

11 Aug 2023 3 2

Joe Biden

Inserted 8 months ago

“That's not good because when bad folks have problems, they do bad things. China is a ticking time bomb. China was growing at 8 percent a year to maintain growth. Now, close to 2 percent a year.”

President of the United States

10 Aug 2023 3 3

Janet Yellen

Inserted 9 months ago

“The US and China have significant disagreements. But President [Joe] Biden and I do not see the relationship between the US and China through the frame of great power conflict. We believe that the world is big enough for both of our countries to thrive. No one visit will solve our challenges overnight. But I expect that this trip will help build a resilient and productive channel of communication.”

United States Secretary of the Treasury

09 Jul 2023 2 2

Global Times

Inserted 9 months ago

“Washington and its allies have sought to suppress China's tech sector with no regard for the potential damage the technological iron curtain may cause to global supply and industrial chains. But now the question is how long Washington can ignore the warning over the consequences when China starts taking legitimate and reasonable measures to safeguard its national security and interests. Compared with the US pressuring allies to cooperate on chip bans against China, China's move this time may be more of a warning, showing that China will not be passively squeezed out of the global semiconductor supply chain.”

Editorial

05 Jul 2023 5 5

Janet Yellen

Inserted 10 months ago

“With respect to the comments, I think President Biden and I both believe it's critical to maintain communication … to clear up misperceptions, miscalculations. We need to work together where possible. But we have disagreements, and we are also forthright in recognising we do have disagreements.”