The future of TikTok remains unclear as President Donald Trump positions himself as the short-form video app’s savior — despite reservations from the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Mao Ning fielded a deluge of questions about TikTok’s future during her Monday press conference,

Chinese officials and ordinary people are hopeful but on edge as Donald Trump returns to the White House, eager to avoid a repeat of the bruising trade war that drove a wedge between the economic superpowers during his first term.

China's claims in the South China Sea overlap with those of the Philippines, which is a U.S. security treaty ally.

China and the United States should seek more common ground and avoid strategic misjudgment, the state-run People's Daily said on Sunday, in an apparent call to the coming Trump administration to deepen engagement.

Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, said in an interview that “we’ve just stuck with our theory, which is managed competition.” Trump and Xi Jinping might have other plans.

While synthetic opiods are a relatively new class of drugs, opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, beginning with the First Opium War.

Elizabeth Economy is Co-Director of the US, China, and the World Project and Hargrove Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. From 2021 to 2023, she was Senior Adviser for China at the U.S. Department of Commerce. She is the author of The World According to China.

Chinese exports and investment in Mexico are quickly rising. The Trump team fears its neighbor could be used as a backdoor to the U.S. market.

TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, went offline in the United States just before a ban took effect only to return the next day. What happens next could set the tone for incoming U.S. President Donald Trump's relationship with Beijing.

I ndia, which is Pakistan's nuclear-armed rival and neighbor, launched a submarine and two warships on Wednesday, bolstering its defense posture in the Indian Ocean as China continued to expand naval presence far away from its shores in East Asia.