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Pamir Strategic Insights Issue 1: Strategic Outlook 2024: US-China Relations
US-China strategic competition stands at a critical juncture and is likely to intensify in 2024.
US-China economic talks lead to “three important consensuses”
Following a series of high-level bilateral talks in November, notably between US Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen and Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China HE Lifeng, and Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, both countries are making progress in maintaining a working economic relationship.
Detainment of Kroll executive in Hong Kong causes further concerns over investments and business in China
It is becoming increasingly difficult for Western companies to do business in China over Beijing’s nebulous definition of what constitutes the state’s concerns around “national security”.
Biden-Xi Meeting Yields Agreements, but Taiwan Remains Flashpoint
On 15 November, President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping met at the Filoli Estate country house near San Francisco during the APEC summit to discuss key issues, such as Taiwan, climate change, and fentanyl trade.
Raimondo visit to Beijing continues Washington’s “de-risking vs. de-coupling” stance towards China
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo’s recent visit to Beijing follows the visits of three other high-level US officials this year as the latter continues to express Washington’s intent to keep trade communication channels open.
Pamir's Alan Kohler joins CBS News to discuss the threat of espionage from China
Earlier this month, the intelligence leaders from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada (theFive Eyes) made their first joint statement in 90 years about the multiple and unprecedented threats China poses to the rest of the world’s economies and security.
China fines US company Mintz for illegal activities, prompting investor concerns
As China attempts to revive its economy, a raft of measures including tighter counter-espionage laws, raiding the offices of US advisory firms, changes to cybersecurity rules, and blocking the export of Chinese data, is damaging investor confidence in the world’s second-largest economy.
President Biden’s historic Hanoi visit strengthens US-Vietnam relations
The United States continued its continued diplomacy around global geopolitics when President Biden visited Hanoi, Vietnam on 10 September to meet General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong.
China Update - Biden’s criticism of China and Xi Jinping - 3 July 2023
President Biden’s criticism of China and Chinese President Xi Jinping during a Democratic fundraiser on 20 June, one day after Secretary of State Blinken concluded his visit to Beijing, dashed hopes for an improvement in US-China relations.
Countering China’s Malign Influence Operations in the United States
On 27 September 2023, Alan E. Kohler (the retired Assistant Director for Counterintelligence in the US) testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Hearing to discuss the foreign malign influence and transnational repression activities carried out by the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Camp David – An unprecedented trilateral partnership
On 18 August, the three leaders of the US, Japan, and South Korea convened at Camp David in Maryland and agreed an unprecedented trilateral partnership that, according to them, “advances the security and prosperity of our people, the Indo-Pacific region, and the world.”
Japan follows the US and the Netherlands in restricting the export of chip-making equipment
After months of pressure from Washington, Japan has joined the US and the Netherlands in restriction the export of advanced chip-making equipment, as the technology race with China ramps up.
US to restrict select private-sector investments in sensitive Chinese technologies over national security concerns
In an unprecedented move, the US Treasury will be given powers to monitor and restrict select US private-sector investments in Chinese sensitive technologies, specifically those that could advance China’s military, intelligence, surveillance, or cyber-related agendas.
Is recent US-China diplomacy a sign of thawing relations?
A series of three meetings between senior US and China officials and diplomats failed to deliver any concrete results, but is it a sign that both parties are willing to open the lines of communication?
Tensions mount as Taiwan elections draw nearer
Washington is having to tread a delicate diplomatic tightrope as China starts to ramp up pressure on Taipei in advance of Taiwan’s presidential elections in January 2024.
How are China and Russia advancing their shared agendas?
Download our recent analyst paper to understand the key implications of recent China-Russia diplomatic developments.
