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China’s UN chance, tariff challenges, ‘don’t poke the dragon’: 7 US-China relations reads

From the new UN vacuum to science fears and a Panama ‘victory’, here are highlights from the SCMP’s overseas correspondents in February 2024

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Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses the United Nations General Assembly via video in September 2020. Donald Trump’s targeting of the UN has created an opportunity for China to expand its power. Photo: UN handout via Xinhua
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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. As Trump cuts US profile at UN, China’s leadership opportunity grows

Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

When not alienating America’s closest trading partners, threatening to take over Greenland, Gaza and the Panama Canal, slapping China with tariffs and decimating the US$40 billion foreign aid programme, US President Donald Trump has targeted the United Nations – handing Beijing a unique opportunity to greatly expand its global reach as it assumes the month-long Security Council presidency.

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2. Trump Jnr says US should avoid ‘poking the dragon’ in China-focused commentary

Photo: AP
Photo: AP

Donald Trump Jnr, the eldest son of US President Donald Trump, called for “avoiding poking the dragon in the eye unnecessarily” as he outlined in February how China fits in his father’s “America First” foreign policy and why lawmakers should unite behind the president’s nominee for Pentagon policy chief.

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3. Unprecedented US visit by all 13 Canadian premiers paints China as ‘enemy’

Photo: Bochen Han
Photo: Bochen Han

All 13 of Canada’s premiers descended upon Washington in an unprecedented effort to remind American officials that their northern neighbour is a pivotal partner as the US weighs imposing tariffs on Canadian imports. Led by Ontario Premier Doug Ford, the high-profile show of concern features a pitch to enlist Canadian provinces as the US seeks, in Ford’s words, a “decoupling from China and its global proxies”.

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