Xi Jinping

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appears before the Senate Finance Committee for his confirmation hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025.

Courage, Strength & Optimism

What comes next for US-China trade relations?

James Rogan · May 14, 2025 8:00 am

US and China agree to slash tariffs temporarily as trade negotiation continues

Ross O'Keefe · May 12, 2025 7:55 am

Beltway Confidential

In Moscow, Xi shows Europe he expects a poodle not a partner

Tom Rogan · May 9, 2025 4:10 pm

Xi and Putin call Trump’s Golden Dome ‘deeply destabilizing’

Mike Brest · May 8, 2025 11:17 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping raise a toast at their dinner in the Hall of Facets in the Kremlin in Moscow on March 21, 2023.

Xi Jinping visits Moscow ahead of Bessent’s trade talks with China

Elaine Mallon · May 7, 2025 6:34 pm

Army soldiers examine the rubble of a mosque building damaged by an Indian missile attack, in Muridke, a town in Pakistan's Punjab province, Wednesday, May 7, 2025.

India-Pakistan conflict splits allegiances between allies China and Russia

Brady Knox · May 7, 2025 1:51 pm

President Donald Trump, right, talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Nov. 9, 2017.

China and US dispute whether Trump-Xi call happened

Mike Brest · April 28, 2025 1:51 pm

Bessent unaware of any trade talks between Trump and Xi

Zach LaChance · April 27, 2025 9:02 pm

President Donald Trump declined to offer any details Friday about an alleged trade-focused phone call he had with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Trump plays coy on apparent trade talks with China’s Xi Jinping

Christian Datoc · April 25, 2025 10:34 am

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Washington.

China denies Trump’s claim that two countries are ‘actively’ negotiating tariffs

Annabella Rosciglione · April 24, 2025 10:08 am

President Donald Trump, right, talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Nov. 9, 2017.

CCP-linked firms ramp up lobbying activity, tap Trump-adjacent operatives

Robert Schmad · April 24, 2025 6:00 am

Trump in ‘no rush’ on UK and China trade but expects deals in ‘three or four weeks’

Timothy Nerozzi · April 18, 2025 12:51 pm