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China Urges US to Avoid ‘Red Lines’ After Reaching Trade Truce
China called on the US to avoid four sensitive issues so a trade truce sealed between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping can hold, highlighting the broad array of disagreements that will test ties. Ambassador to the US Xie Feng named Taiwan, democracy and human rights, China’s political system, and development rights as Beijing’s four red lines, adding that “the most important thing is to respect each other’s core interests and major concerns.” Xie made the remarks in a virtual speech to a
2025-11-04 -
Beijing Adviser Says US Talks Cement China as ‘Equal Partner’
The summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his American counterpart Donald Trump was a breakthrough in bilateral relationship where the Asian giant was treated as an “equal partner” of the US, according to David Daokui Li, a regular policy adviser to Beijing. “Among all the meetings between the two leaders, this one is perhaps the most important — really historical,” said Li, an economics professor at Tsinghua University and a former adviser to the Chinese central bank. “Fundamentally
2025-11-03 -
Lectures in Government and Economics | China's Regional Competition and Unique Relationship Between Government and the Market
On October 31, 2025, the Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE) hosted an online lecture entitled China's Regional Competition and Unique Relationship between Government and the Market. This lecture was presented by Zhou Li'an, Director of Peking University's Faculty of Economics and Management and Boya Chair Professor of Applied Economics at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management. The webinar represented the twenty-first installment in SAGE's Lectures in Governme
2025-10-31 -
CPC plenum concludes, adopting recommendations for China’s 15th Five-Year Plan
The 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) convened its fourth plenary session in Beijing from Monday to Thursday. Participants at the session deliberated over and adopted the Recommendations of the CPC Central Committee for Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development, according to a communique of the session released on Thursday, the Xinhua News Agency reported. The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee presided over the meeting.
2025-10-23 -
Former PBOC advisor expects a Trump-Xi trade deal
Ahead of the meeting of U.S. President Trump and Chinese President Xi, former PBOC advisor David Daokui Li gave his assessment on the state of the trade war between the two powers.
2025-10-20 -
Will world's largest dam project be big enough for China's economy?
Addressing ordered ranks of construction workers, government officials and cadres in traditional Tibetan dress standing at attention in a clearing ringed by misty Himalayan mountain peaks, Chinese Premier Li Qiang three months ago hailed the official launch of the country's "project of the century" -- an ambitious 1.2 trillion yuan ($168 billion) hydropower project to be built at the site of the world's deepest canyon.
2025-10-17 -
China and ASEAN step into the next phase of shared development
In steelmaking, what once relied on the seasoned eye of a master is now handled by smart systems that read flame color and brightness to guide inputs with precision. In sugarcane fields, robots take care of planting, spraying and harvesting while spotting weeds to cut pesticide use. A legal large model can translate laws from all 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and a fruit-focused large model offers features such as evaluating when durians are ripe, hel
2025-09-22



