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Biden's Taiwan policy is deeply reckless "One China" is a diplomatic fiction, but it keeps the peace. Yet the administration is moving away from it — and risking a war for which the U.S. is ill-prepared.  By Peter Beinart Text size Copy shortlink: Media coverage of President Joe Biden's foreign policy tends to focus on his efforts to withdraw from Afghanistan, get tough on Russia and negotiate with Iran. But none of those may prove as consequential as Biden's quiet, incremental, moves to establish official relations with Taiwan. Because ...

May 5, 2021 Credit...Illustration by The New York Times; photographs by Al Drago and Tom Brenner for The New York Times, and samxmeg/Getty Images By Peter Beinart Mr. Beinart is a contributing Opinion writer who focuses on U.S. foreign policy. Media coverage of President Biden’s foreign policy tends to focus on his efforts to withdraw from Afghanistan, get tough on Russia and negotiate with Iran. But none of those may prove as consequential as Mr. Biden’s quiet, incremental, moves to establish official relations with Taiwan. Because only his policy toward Taiwan is meaningfully incr...

BEIJING (Global Times): Former officials, top scholars and a dozen of young scholars from China and the US had in-depth discussions on how to get China-US relations back on track at a forum held in Beijing on April 10. China-US Young Scholars Forum, co-organised by the Global Times, the Carter Center of the US, and the Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding with Peking University, was held online to commemorate 5th anniversary of the forum. The event was also held on the day that marks the 50th anniversary of the "ping-pong diplomacy" between China and the US. Former US President ...

Nearly a year to the day after seven new leaders ascended to their posts on the Standing Committee of China’s Politburo, the Asia Society held a public conversation with The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos; Dr. Susan Shirk of the University of California, San Diego; Former Ambassador to China, J. Stapleton Roy; and Orville Schell. The discussion, which you can watch and read below in full, covered China’s leadership transition so far—its successes, shortcomings, and controversies—as well as the future of the China’s political system. — The Editors [3:50]: Orville Schell: It’s great t...

After a volatile 12 months, hopes grow for more rational US-China relations There is no simple way to sum up relations between China and the United States in 2020. It is safe to say they have been tumultuous, fraught with inflammatory rhetoric, and laden with back-and-forth sanctions. But the relationship also holds hope. The "most consequential" bilateral relationship in the world seems to have reached the bottom of the valley, from where every step to be taken may lead back to the mountain top, so hoped senior China hands in Washington and beyond, as they look at 2020 in retrospect. The yea...