The deadly conflict on the Thai-Cambodian border pits a longtime United States ally with decades of experience against a relatively young armed force with close ties to China.

President Donald Trump says a trip to China may happen soon, hinting at efforts to stabilize U.S.-China trade relations.

China has embraced an “anaconda strategy” to slowly ramp up pressure on Taiwan, making continued U.S. support a lynchpin of the island’s autonomy.

Half a century after the establishment of relations between China and the EU, and against a backdrop of deteriorating transatlantic relations, the European Union and China held their 25th summit in Beijing.

China recently banned a foreign Wells Fargo executive and a United States government employee from leaving its territory, spotlighting its opaque judicial and security system and rekindling concerns over the risks facing foreign companies and nationals operating there.

Yet analysts say the Chinese leader is likely holding out for concrete deliverables before agreeing to the high-profile meeting. Trump dramatically escalated the trade war with the world's second-largest economy in April, rolling out sweeping new tariffs that prompted China to respond with its own export duties and other measures.

China wants to bring its trade ties with the U.S. back to a stable footing, its commerce minister said, adding that recent talks in Europe showed there was no need for a tariff war while urging the U.

E.U. leaders are in Beijing to mark 50 years of diplomatic relations with China, but they have major disagreements over trade and Russia’s war against Ukraine.

China claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own, although the Chinese Communist Party has never ruled there. Taipei is a key U.S. security partner in the center of the so-called first island chain in the Western Pacific.

The US embassy in China has expressed concerns about damage to bilateral relations from exit bans, after Beijing prevented an American commerce department employee from leaving the country.

China and Russia declared a "no limits" partnership in February 2022 when Putin visited Beijing, days before he sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine. Putin has sometimes described China as an "ally".

Members of the military-industrial complex are “horrified that the Chinese now no longer have a constraint on being able to compete with and potentially dominate the Americans in this most important space.