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We have selected seven of the most interesting and important news stories covering US-China relations from the past few weeks. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing.
1. Born in China, raised in the US: adoptees explore their identity at Lunar New Year

The Lunar New Year is a time for Chinese people to come together to celebrate family. But for those who were born in China and adopted by US couples, the holiday period can bring up complicated feelings about their heritage and birth families, as well as questions about what it means to be Chinese and what it means to be American.
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2. Xi-Trump talk plans rattled by chaotic US team: ‘the worst I’ve ever seen’

With little time to go before a likely summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, preparations are inadequate, bilateral contacts anaemic and outcomes diminished, analysts and former government officials familiar with planning told the Post.
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3. Hasan Piker talks about his controversial China trip – and ‘thinking Chinese thoughts’

One of the most influential political commentators among young Americans, Hasan Piker knew his first trip to China would provoke backlash. What he did not expect was how quickly the debate would collapse into a binary: propaganda or patriotism. In an exclusive interview with the Post, Piker claimed Americans are “taught to hate China”.
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4. US tariff ruling points to steadier US-China ties before April summit: analysts

Ahead of Trump’s high-stakes summit with Xi, analysts said recent American policy reversals, including a Supreme Court ruling striking down broad tariffs, have shifted trade tensions into a phase of cautious stability rather than escalation.
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5. China, Russia should join US in new nuclear arms control deal: Rubio

Washington will keep pushing China to join a trilateral nuclear control deal with the US and Russia, but can’t compel it to do so, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, citing “strategic stability” in China-US relations, despite long-term “irritants”.
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6. White House deflects as Trump weighs Taiwan arms sale delay amid Beijing pressure

In February, the White House declined to comment on reports that Trump was weighing whether to cancel or delay a major new arms package to Taiwan, before the expected summit with Xi.
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7. China’s extreme 996 work schedule meets US tech’s hustle culture

The US Gen Z start-up class is reframing “millennial hustle culture” by shifting from side gigs and personal branding to a more rigid office grind, while looking to China for inspiration. They are openly embracing 996, the controversial 9am to 9pm, six-day-a-week schedule popularised by Chinese tech companies.
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996 comes to America, Hasan Piker’s ‘Chinese thoughts’: 7 US-China relations reads

China’s controversial 996 office culture – in which people work from 9am to 9pm, six days a week – is being embraced in the US. Photo: Shutterstock

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Secret nuclear testing claims, military AI race: 7 US-China relations reads

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio holds a press conference during the Critical Minerals Ministerial at the State Department in Washington DC on February 4, 2026. Photo: Reuters

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Trump’s trip to China scheduled, archeologists unearth temple: 5 weekend reads you missed

The US Supreme Court building in Washington, where justices released on Friday their opinion striking down US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. Photo: Reuters

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping greet each other during their October 2025 summit in Busan, South Korea. Trump will be visiting China from March 31. Photo: AFP

The EU has barred most organisations based in China from applying for its Horizon Europe grants in “critical areas”. Image: Shutterstock

US President Donald Trump gestures as he holds a press briefing at the White House, following the Supreme Court’s ruling on his tariffs on Friday. Photo: Reuters

A high-speed train leaves Tegalluar Station, located along the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway in Indonesia. Photo: Xinhua

Pilgrims visit the birthplace of Buddha in Lumbini, Nepal. In 2025, about 1.1 million tourists – including domestic and international travellers – visited Lumbini. Photo: Shutterstock

China goes visa-free for UK, Canada; Rubio, Wang Yi in Munich: 5 weekend reads you missed

The Chinatown area of Melbourne, Australia. Photo: Shutterstock

Foreign tourists take in the sights in the Bund area of Shanghai. Photo: Xinhua

In their addresses to the Munich Security Conference, both US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke of the need to carefully manage differences between the two powers. Photo: AFP

Hundreds of passengers queue at Ocean Terminal waiting to board the ship. Photo: Facebook/Longman Lo

A number of psychiatric hospitals in central China have been exposed for luring healthy people to pose as mental patients in a scheme to defraud medical insurance. Photo: SCMP composite/Weibo/Douyin

Chinese tourists are projected to visit Australia in increasing numbers over the extended Lunar New Year break, with China Trading Desk expecting a 20 per cent increase over the same period in 2025. Photo: Reuters

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From a new trilateral nuclear pact to the “worst” Xi-Trump talks prep, here are highlights from our overseas correspondents in February 2026


From a new trilateral nuclear pact to the “worst” Xi-Trump talks prep, here are highlights from our overseas correspondents in February 2026.


996 comes to America, Hasan Piker’s ‘Chinese thoughts’: 7 US-China relations reads

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}From a new trilateral nuclear pact to the “worst” Xi-Trump talks prep, here are highlights from our overseas correspondents in February 2026

1. Born in China, raised in the US: adoptees explore their identity at Lunar New Year

2. Xi-Trump talk plans rattled by chaotic US team: ‘the worst I’ve ever seen’

From a new trilateral nuclear pact to the “worst” Xi-Trump talks prep, here are highlights from our overseas correspondents in February 2026