The American people don’t care about Taiwan, so Taiwan should forget about the US having its back and show respect to Beijing before China teaches it a harsh lesson.

China is being redefined in the U.S., by the president, by Congress, and by the American people themselves.

The agreement for a single draft text as the basis for further negotiations for a Code of Conduct (COC) is a significant milestone in the long-running South China Sea saga, argues Lucio Blanco Pitlo III.

In front of the agitated and sometimes flustered US, President Xi Jinping is still composed and firm like a rock.

Clearly, it is time for some “new thinking” in Taipei. Otherwise, Tsai’s “combat ready” diplomats may eventually have no battles to fight.

Pakistan now has a new government. But will this change Pakistan’s relationship with one of its closest allies - China?

For America’s coercive diplomacy with North Korea to work, it must start employing carrots as well as sticks.

The two countries are entering a phase of intense competition.

For forty years, China and the U.S. maintained relations that despite disagreements, were marked more by cooperation than friction – a strategy of cooperation that survived eight U.S. presidents. Though there were vicissitudes and various crises during each presidency, China and the U.S.’ relationship as “cooperating rivals” had not seen fundamental changes, until recently.

Professor Graham Allison of Harvard has suggested that the US/China relationship might fall into the ‘Thucydides trap’, referring to conflict between an established power and a newly rising one. This is a possibility but not a certainty: both countries will have to take care to avoid exacerbating difficulties in the relationship and to make the right choices among the different scenarios for the way forward, and as things stand, China appears better placed to manage this change.