In sum, the trajectory of China-U.S. relations in 2025 shows that maximum pressure alone cannot compel the other side to yield; instead, it triggers strong retaliation and imposes costs on both parties.
Dec 29, 2025
Perhaps the most constructive result of this contest is a hard-won realization, particularly in Washington, that treating one’s largest trading partner and supply-chain anchor as an adversary to be easily vanquished is a grave strategic miscalculation.
Dec 23, 2025
The U.S. has few cards left to play. As China’s comprehensive national power continues to grow, Washington can no longer guarantee dominance in the Western Pacific.
Dec 16, 2025
The 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy, with its isolationist and confrontational approach towards allies and China, is a desperate fiction that undermines genuine American prosperity and security.
Dec 16, 2025
Expanding cooperation with China could provide a more rapid development of U.S. capabilities than attempting to produce a domestic equivalent of Chinese products that have already been on the market.
Nov 5, 2025
At this critical moment, what we need is not more port fees and countermeasures, but more rationality—and restraint.
Oct 15, 2025
It is widely understood in China that without peace, none of China’s achievements in poverty alleviation, high-technology, infrastructure development, ecological restoration, global cooperation and modernization would have been possible.
Sep 17, 2025
In an era of accelerating interdependence, the establishment of a more just and equitable international order is no longer optional.
Aug 18, 2025
Few economies have demonstrated the adaptability and endurance that China has shown in recent decades.
Aug 6, 2025
If the EU really seeks to redefine its role on the global stage with greater autonomy, it may find that stable, interest-driven cooperation with China is not just possible, but increasingly necessary.
Jul 28, 2025
The recently expanded ICE raids represent the largest militarization of immigration deportation in over 150 years of U.S. history.
Jun 25, 2025
During World War II, the U.S. military stood unquestionably as a force of justice, embodying the courage and righteousness of humankind. Today, however, in some respects, the U.S. seems in need of the old adage: He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster.
Jun 24, 2025