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On December 8 local time, the U.S. Department of Defense—now renamed the “War Department”—posted a commemorative poster on its official social media account marking the 84th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, accompanied by the caption: “We will never forget!”
Tiếp tục đọc “Having caused trouble everywhere, Japan has now been abandoned by its allies and finds itself surrounded on all sides。”
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When Donald Trump pulled back on his plan to impose eye-watering tariffs on trading partners across the world, there was one key exception: China.
While the rest of the world would be given a 90-day reprieve on additional duties beyond the new 10% tariffs on all U.S. trade partners, China would feel the squeeze even more. On April 9, 2025, Trump raised the tariff on Chinese goods to 125% – bringing the total U.S. tariff on some Chinese imports to 145%.
The move, in Trump’s telling, was prompted by Beijing’s “lack of respect for global markets.” But the U.S. president may well have been smarting from Beijing’s apparent willingness to confront U.S. tariffs head on.
Tiếp tục đọc “In trade war with the US, China holds a lot more cards than Trump may think − in fact, it might have a winning hand”VNE – Thứ năm, 10/4/2025, 14:49 (GMT+7)
Trung Quốc hôm nay cho biết nước này sẵn sàng đàm phán với Mỹ, nhưng cũng không sợ hãi nếu Mỹ tiếp tục đe dọa áp thuế.
Cờ Mỹ và Trung Quốc. Ảnh: Reuters
Ngày 10/4, khi được hỏi về việc liệu Mỹ và Trung Quốc đã bắt đầu đàm phán thuế nhập khẩu hay chưa, người phát ngôn Bộ Thương mại Trung Quốc He Yongqian cho biết nước này sẵn sàng đàm phán với Mỹ, nhưng phải trên cơ sở bình đẳng và tôn trọng lẫn nhau. Ông khẳng định “việc gây sức ép, đe dọa, bắt nạt” không phải là cách hành xử đúng với Trung Quốc.
South China Morning Post – 9-3-2025
US President Donald Trump has made South America a priority for his administration, citing concerns about China’s growing influence in the region. Through Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, China has invested heavily in major projects in the region, particularly related to lithium reserves, transport and energy infrastructure. As a result, China has replaced the US as South America’s main trading partner over the past two decades. Early into his second term, Trump attempted to strong-arm control back in the US’ favour by threatening to seize the Panama Canal away from China’s growing influence. However, experts suggest his methods will not be enough to turn the momentum, as China’s flexible business approach and significant investments have reshaped the continent’s landscape.
By John Liu and Hassan Tayir, CNN
7 minute read
Published 9:27 PM EDT, Wed March 26, 2025
BYD’s logo is seen at a showroom in Warsaw, Poland on March 22, 2025. Stringer/NurPhoto/Getty ImagesHong KongCNN —
In the world of electric vehicles, there’s a Chinese company outdoing Elon Musk’s Tesla. And it’s just getting started.
BYD, the Shenzhen-based Chinese EV champion, eclipsed Tesla in annual sales last year. Last week, it unveiled a revolutionary battery charging technology that it says adds 250 miles of range in five minutes, outpacing Tesla’s Superchargers, which take 15 minutes to add 200 miles. And last month, BYD launched “God’s Eye,” an advanced driver-assistance system rivaling Tesla’s Full Self-Driving feature, at no extra cost for most of its cars.
Tiếp tục đọc “It’s the world’s hottest car company. You can’t buy one in America”
Analysis by Simone McCarthy, CNN
7 minute read
Published 9:19 PM EST, Wed January 29, 2025
This photo illustration shows the DeepSeek app on a mobile phone in Beijing this month. Greg Baker/AFP/Getty ImagesHong KongCNN —
Previously little-known Chinese startup DeepSeek has dominated headlines and app charts in recent days thanks to its new AI chatbot, which sparked a global tech sell-off that wiped billions off Silicon Valley’s biggest companies and shattered assumptions of America’s dominance of the tech race.
But those signing up for the chatbot and its open-source technology are being confronted with the Chinese Communist Party’s brand of censorship and information control.
Ask DeepSeek’s newest AI model, unveiled last week, to do things like explain who is winning the AI race, summarize the latest executive orders from the White House or tell a joke and a user will get similar answers to the ones spewed out by American-made rivals OpenAI’s GPT-4, Meta’s Llama or Google’s Gemini.
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In this image made from a video provided by the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea (NTF-WPS), a Chinese coast guard vessel, left, fires a powerful water cannon on a Philippine bureau of fisheries vessel near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea Wednesday Dec. 4, 2024. (National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea via AP)Read More
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In this image taken from a video provided by National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea (NTF-WPS), a Chinese coast guard vessel, right, fires a powerful water cannon on a Philippine bureau of fisheries vessel near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (NTF-WPS via AP)Read More
By DIDI TANGUpdated 6:55 AM GMT+7, December 6, 2024 AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. severely lags behind China in shipbuilding capacity, lawmakers and experts have warned, as the Biden administration tries to build up the country’s ability to develop and produce weapons and other defense supplies to fend off war.
Speaking at a congressional hearing Thursday, Rep. John Moolenaar, the Republican chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, said the country lacks the capacity to “deter and win a fight” with China and called for action.
“Bold policy changes and significant resources are now needed to restore deterrence and prevent a fight” with China, Moolenaar said.
Tiếp tục đọc “Dwarfed by China in shipbuilding, US looks to build its defense base to fend off war”THANH TUẤN 13/07/2024 18:27 GMT+7
TTCT – Bất chấp những lệnh cấm vận ngặt nghèo của Mỹ, tập đoàn công nghệ hàng đầu Trung Quốc Huawei vẫn đang phát triển mạnh mẽ…
Nhà sáng lập Huawei Nhậm Chính Phi thường nói về cuộc chiến giữa tập đoàn này với Mỹ bằng ngôn ngữ quân sự. “Tới lúc cầm súng, lên ngựa và ra trận”, ông nói trong họp nội bộ hồi năm 2018. Thông điệp cho năm sau của ông là nhân viên Huawei sẽ cột mình vào xe tăng để kéo ra chiến trường.
Theo The Economist, kiểu ví von dữ dội này dễ hiểu: Huawei liên tục bị Mỹ nhắm tới suốt hơn 10 năm qua. Năm 2012, chính quyền Mỹ bắt đầu cáo buộc Trung Quốc dùng tập đoàn này cho mục đích tình báo.
Mỹ còn truy tố giám đốc tài chính Huawei, đồng thời là con gái ông Nhậm, bà Mạnh Vãn Chu (theo họ mẹ) năm 2018 vì vi phạm lệnh cấm vận với Iran.
Tới 2020, cuộc chiến của Mỹ trở thành tổng lực khi hầu hết các công ty nước này bị cấm kinh doanh với Huawei, các công ty quốc tế bị Mỹ cấm bán chip và thiết bị có sử dụng công nghệ Mỹ cho tập đoàn Trung Quốc. Mỹ thậm chí vận động các nước không sử dụng thiết bị Huawei trong hạ tầng viễn thông.
Tiếp tục đọc ““Cú ám sát” Huawei bất thành của Mỹ”The post-Cold War era is over and a dangerous new era of great power competition has begun.
Blog Post by Michelle Kurilla
May 23, 2024 10:42 am (EST), CFR
The latest episode of The President’s Inbox is live! This week, Jim sat down with David E. Sanger, White House and National Security Correspondent for the New York Times. David recently published New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West. They discussed the United States’ return to great power competition.The President’s Inbox
David Sanger, the White House and national security correspondent for the New York Times, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how the post-Cold War ended and why the new era of geopolitical rivalry began.
Here are four highlights from their conversation:
1.) The post-Cold War era is over. The United States no longer enjoys its unipolar moment. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and through the 2000s, the United States and the West made a series of misjudgments about where Russia and China were headed. They assumed that Russia and China would want to become more integrated into the U.S.-led world order. David acknowledged that Russian President Vladimir Putin stated explicitly in 2007 that he would do the contrary, while China’s ambitions were unclear initially. David said, “this was a failure of imagining a world in which these powers wanted to return to a past era of greatness and weren’t going to sit still for a unipolar world, run out of Washington under Washington values
Tiếp tục đọc “America’s New Cold Wars”ANH NGUYỄN – 13/08/2023 08:45 GMT+7
TTCT – Cuối tháng 6-2022, một lệnh cấm ở quận Bắc Đới Hà được ban bố khiến nhiều người ngạc nhiên: xe Tesla bị cấm tới bờ biển khu vực nghỉ dưỡng ven biển ở tỉnh Hà Bắc này trong hai tháng.
Cảnh sát giao thông Bắc Đới Hà khi được hỏi chỉ nói lệnh cấm là vì “vấn đề quốc gia”, nhưng không cung cấp thêm thông tin.
Bắc Đới Hà là địa điểm cuộc gặp mặt hằng năm của giới lãnh đạo cao nhất Trung Quốc, và lệnh cấm được ban bố chỉ vài tuần sau khi xe Tesla bị cấm vào một số đường trung tâm ở Thành Đô trong một chuyến thăm của Chủ tịch Tập Cận Bình.
Tiếp tục đọc “Xe điện và an ninh quốc gia”
By MJ Lee and Donald Judd, CNN
7 minute read
Updated 10:27 PM EDT, Tue April 2, 2024
US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ week in Woodside, California on November 15, 2023. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty ImagesWashingtonCNN —
President Joe Biden spoke on the phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, marking the first conversation between the leaders since their historic in-person summit in November and the latest in ongoing efforts by US and Chinese officials to defuse tensions between the two superpowers.
Tiếp tục đọc “Biden and Xi speak for first time since November summit amid global tensions”MARCH 24, 2024, 6:00 AM
By Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson, an assistant professor in the international history department at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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On Oct. 25, 1976, U.S. businessman Charles Abrams traveled to New York City’s South Street Seaport to welcome a ship loaded with Chinese vodka. This was, according to Abrams, the first time the liquor had been commercially imported from China since 1949.
Tiếp tục đọc “How ‘Made in China’ Became American Gospel”CNA Insider -13 thg 2, 2024
In the span of three months, presidents of both the US and China have visited Hanoi. From the visits, numerous trade and investment deals were signed. Politically and economically, Vietnam stands to gain from closer ties with the US. As President Biden continues to de-risk from China, American businesses are shifting their operations and manufacturing from China to Vietnam. But camaraderie with Washington could jeopardise Hanoi’s relationship with Beijing and Moscow. Why are the superpowers courting Vietnam, and can the Southeast Asian country balance the competing wants of rival titans?
00:00 Introduction 02:45 Significance of Vietnam-US comprehensive strategic partnership 07:10 Vietnam and US-China relations 10:21 Evolution of Vietnam-US relations 18:35 Why does the US want to upgrade Vietnam-US ties? 23:51 State of Vietnam-China relations 30:06 Is China concerned about closer Vietnam-US relations? 32:51 Vietnam-Russia relations and the Russia-Ukraine war 36:40 Vietnam’s neutral stance and its benefits 43:26 What challenges will Vietnam face in balancing relations?DECEMBER 6, 2023, 10:42 AM FP
By Jared Cohen, the president of global affairs at Goldman Sachs and a New York Times bestselling author of five books, and Ian Bremmer, the president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media. He is also the host of the television show GZERO World with Ian Bremmer.
After decades of relative geopolitical calm, the world has entered its most volatile and dangerous period since the depths of the Cold War. Consider recent events. Despite U.S. President Joe Biden’s high-profile meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco last month, relations between their two countries have deteriorated so sharply that a war between them, though unlikely, is no longer unthinkable. The COVID-19 pandemic, although largely in the rearview mirror, unleashed political and economic shocks that continue to reverberate across the global system. Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine plunged Europe into a destabilizing war with far-reaching consequences for trade and markets worldwide. And on Oct. 7, Hamas’s terror attacks against Israel sparked a new Middle East war that threatens to destroy years of progress toward economic transformation and regional stability.
These global shifts and shocks are often grouped together, and for good reason. According to International Monetary Fund (IMF) economists, they are among the drivers of a “policy-driven reversal of global economic integration” termed “geoeconomic fragmentation.” For some analysts, they are constituents of a so-called polycrisis, in which a series of disparate shocks “interact so that the whole is even more overwhelming than the sum of the parts.” And the White House itself has repeatedly highlighted how it helped crystalize thinking about the links between national security and economic policy to produce a “New Washington Consensus.”
Tiếp tục đọc “The Global Credibility Gap”NOVEMBER 27, 2023, 6:00 AM FP
By Robbie Gramer, a diplomacy and national security reporter at Foreign Policy.
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On an overcast day in late October, I headed up to Capitol Hill to report on what might be the last pocket of functioning governance in Congress: the House of Representatives’ China Committee.
Reps. Mike Gallagher, a Republican, and Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat, are the chair and ranking member of what is basically the hottest ticket in Washington. The Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, which is its full name, was the brainchild of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and is focused exclusively on how to map out a new era of U.S. competition with China. It’s a task almost everyone in Washington is on board with, which has made at least some U.S. allies and partners around the world very uneasy, fearful of being dragged into a Cold War 2.0.
Some American experts and officials bristle at the new Cold War moniker; others begrudgingly accept it. But whatever you call it, the new era of U.S. competition with China represents the most significant strategic shift in American foreign policy in decades. Congress wants to carve out its role in the action, and on that front Gallagher and Krishnamoorthi are in the driver’s seat.
I met the two lawmakers in the Krishnamoorthi’s office in the Rayburn House Office Building. Krishnamoorthi’s office is adorned with paraphernalia, including flags and local snacks from his home district in the Chicago suburbs, the Illinois 8th. Gallagher is a fellow Midwesterner and represents Wisconsin’s 8th district.
Tiếp tục đọc “The Masterminds”
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