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...“For a Democratic, pro-labour president in an election year, this is a no-brainer,” said Evan Medeiros, a Georgetown University China expert and author of a recent report on US-China relations....
...Biden is a year away from a presidential election and is trailing in the polls to Donald Trump, and Xi faces a slowing Chinese economy....
...The summit, said former White House official Evan Medeiros, marked the acceptance by both sides that they were in the opening phase of long-term geopolitical competition....
...Washington needs to grasp any opportunity to steady the situation, argues Evan Medeiros, who served in the US National Security Council, and who characterises the process as one of “reconnection” rather...
...After a rocky four years under Donald Trump, China hoped Biden would ease the turbulence....
...TikTok will be removed from US app stores from midnight on Sunday as Washington implements executive orders from President Donald Trump that also target WeChat, a Chinese social media app....
...It is a cyclical de-risking of bilateral ties amid a long-term structural deterioration,” said Evan Medeiros, a China expert at Georgetown University who served as the top Asia adviser to President Barack...
...That was the question that I put to Evan Medeiros....
...Halfway through Donald Trump’s impeachment in late January I vanished. Unlike Rip Van Winkle, I wasn’t plied with liquor by strange Dutchmen (my wife is Irish and by no means a stranger)....
...Biden has surprised many foreign policy experts by taking an approach to China that has more in common than not with the harsh stance taken by former president Donald Trump....
...“Beijing wants a reset and to avoid the confrontation of the Trump years, but doesn’t want to do much to achieve it,” Medeiros said....
...The exchange said the decision was made to comply with an executive order signed by Donald Trump, US president, in November....
...Biden has even signalled that he has no immediate plan to remove the tariffs Donald Trump imposed on imports from China during his trade war....
...While such notes are generally part of normal diplomatic protocols, President Donald Trump has yet to concede the election, and Mr Xi has delayed offering his personal congratulations to the president-elect...
...Donald Trump has said the US would revoke special trade privileges for Hong Kong and sanction officials from the territory and mainland China after Beijing moved to impose new security laws on the former...
...Donald Trump has in recent weeks dispensed with some of his earlier flattery of Chinese leader Xi Jinping....
...When US secretary of state Mike Pompeo last month declared in a speech that China was intent on “hegemony”, it was yet another sign of how much has changed since Donald Trump wrote in a tweet in March about...
...“There’s no question this is a big move, but it’s not . . . all or nothing,” Mr Medeiros said....
...“We are entering the Twilight Zone of US-China relations,” said Evan Medeiros, who served as top White House Asia adviser to president Barack Obama....
...Evan Medeiros, a former Obama administration White House Asia adviser, acknowledges that the label simply reflected the new reality in Washington....
...President Donald Trump has made little secret of his hostility towards China and desire for stronger ties with India....
...Facing historic job losses and behind in the polls, US president Donald Trump has moved to blame China for his administration’s struggles in responding to coronavirus....
...President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that effectively bars US companies from using any telecoms equipment manufactured by China’s Huawei....
...“Prior to the phone call, both sides were posturing,” said Mr Medeiros....
...First, US president Donald Trump has moved beyond unpredictable and impulsive behaviour, which many now expect and can live with....
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