The Future of the U.S. and China Opening Session: The Global Chessboard

January 14, 2021 — Asia Society Northern California Executive Director Margaret Conley gives welcome remarks to the center’s signature one-day conference, The Future of the U.S. and. and China: Seeking Truth Through Facts, followed by opening remarks from Ambassador Eleni Kounalakis, lieutenant governor of California. Asia Society President and CEO Kevin Rudd then delivers a keynote address on the necessary frameworks for China and the United States to co-exist and continue collaboration, maintain competition, and prevent conflict. (31 min., 22 sec.)

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Analysis by Laura He, CNN Business

Updated 0947 GMT (1747 HKT) December 22, 2020

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China had been counting on its biggest chipmaker to help the country eventually reduce its reliance on the likes of Intel (INTC) and Samsung (SSNLF). The United States just put those ambitions in jeopardy. Washington announced Friday that it will require US exporters to apply for a license before they can sell to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC). The US government claims that the chipmaker can use its tech to help China modernize its armed forces. SMIC (SIUIF) says it has no relationship with the Chinese military. But in a statement on Sunday, the company acknowledged that while the restrictions are unlikely to hurt its short-term operations, its loftier goals are in doubt. The new US rules will have “a material adverse effect” on its ability to develop highly advanced chips, it said.

2020 Annual Report to Congress

Topics this year include China’s view of strategic competition with the United States; China’s promotion of alternative global norms and standards; China’s strategic aims in Africa; vulnerabilities in China’s financial system and risks for the United States; U.S.-China links in healthcare and biotechnology; China’s growing power projection and expeditionary capabilities; Taiwan; Hong Kong; and a review of economics, trade, security, political, and foreign affairs developments in 2020.

Opening Statement of Chairman Robin Cleveland

Opening Statement of Vice Chairman Carolyn Bartholomew

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U.S.-China Global Competition

Chapter 1 Section 1 – A Global Contest for Power and Influence: China’s View of Strategic Competition with the United States

Chapter 1 Section 2 – The China Model: Return of the Middle Kingdom

Chapter 1 Section 3 – China’s Strategic Aims in Africa

U.S.-China Economic and Trade Relations

Chapter 2 Section 1 – Year in Review: Economics and Trade

Chapter 2 Section 2 – Vulnerabilities in China’s Financial System and Risks for the United States

Chapter 2 Section 3 – U.S.-China Links in Healthcare and Biotechnology

U.S.-China Security, Politics, and Foreign Affairs

Chapter 3 Section 1 – Year in Review: Security, Politics, and Foreign Affairs

Chapter 3 Section 2 – China’s Growing Power Projection and Expeditionary Capabilities

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Chapter 4 – Taiwan

Hong Kong

Chapter 5 – Hong Kong

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By Isaac Chotiner December 9, 2020 The New Yorker

In September, the House passed a bill that would ban imports produced by Uighur forced laborers in Xinjiang. Companies such as Apple, Nike, and Coca-Cola have mounted a lobbying campaign against the bill, which passed the House by an overwhelming margin of four hundred and six to three, and is likely to pass the Senate. If the bill does become law, it will be the latest sign that the relationship between the United States and China is as contentious as it has been in decades. The Chinese Communist Party’s use of forced labor, its authoritarian activity in Hong Kong, and its obfuscation about the coronavirus have raised bipartisan concerns about the future of the relationship between the U.S. and China.

“For decades we allowed the CCP free and unfettered access to US institutions and businesses while these same privileges were never extended freely to US citizens in China,” a State Department spokesperson said in a statement quoted by the Times.

Applicants had previously been able to obtain 10-year visitor visas. The report estimated the new restrictions could theoretically apply to around 270 million people.

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China’s new rules primarily restrict the export of military technologies and other products. image copyright Getty Images

China has introduced tough new laws which restrict the export of “controlled items”.

The rules primarily focus on the export of military technologies and other products that might harm China’s national security.

Biden’s top envoy says China decoupling was a ‘mistake’ but ASEAN nations will still be pressed to pick superpower sides By DAVID HUTTNOVEMBER 28, 2020 Asia Times

The incoming Joe Biden administration is expected to be more dependable and predictable than Donald Trump’s, a potential cause for relief among Southeast Asian governments that have struggled to read and react to the outgoing US president’s mercurial leadership.