US President Donald Trump stated in October that he is open to a three-way meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin during his November visit to China, with nuclear weapons on the agenda.
A Republican senator warned that the United States is lulling itself into a “sense of false security” concerning its military rivalry with China. The 2027 US defence bill proposes more than US$1 trillion in spending for national defence.
Linda Chew, a retired judge in the sixth-largest city of the US state of Texas, told the SCMP last month that there is a real resurrection in understanding the influence of the Chinese in Texas.
The US State Department has updated its travel advisory for China to include a warning regarding “wrongful detention.” Global pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca announced it would begin selling a cancer drug, which has prompted some Americans to fly to Shanghai to obtain the potentially life-saving medicine first developed in China.
