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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicUS-China tension

Topic: US-China tension

China’s 2025 foreign policy—Trump uncertainty could push Beijing closer to Europe

China’s most critical international relationship remains with the US. With Donald Trump returning to the presidency, China-US relations are expected to face intensified challenges.

US targets cheap products coming in from China. What’s the ‘de minimis’ loophole it’s trying to plug

Biden administration puts in new curbs to counter low-value products mainly originating from China-founded e-commerce platforms. This comes 2 months ahead of US presidential elections.

US-China ties hang between Biden and next president. Recent trips show a lot is on the line

Despite raging wars in Europe and West Asia, multiple US govt agencies have made it clear that China’s rise in the Indo-Pacific poses the most significant challenge to America’s global primacy.

US-China science pact must be renewed. Keep geopolitics from hindering scientific progress

The risk to science of abandoning the open collaboration among scientists from China and the US outweighs even the most critical views.

Chinese spy balloon used US tech to spy on Americans, says WSJ report

US defense and intelligence agencies discovered that the balloon carried US gear, along with Chinese sensors, to collect and transmit information to China, according to the WSJ.

Xi-Blinken peace is fragile and won’t last

Although Chinese President Xi Jinping struck a conciliatory tone during the meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, it is clear that he wants a truce on his own terms.

Ahead of Blinken’s visit, Chinese media says US creating ‘illusion’ of eagerness to engage

The lead up to the high-stakes visit has been marred by fresh US claims of Chinese spying & scathing Chinese attacks on Washington’s sincerity to improve frayed bilateral ties.

‘Display of self-contradictory USA,’ says China, refutes claims of Chinese spy station in Cuba

Beijing denounced the US govt and media for releasing what it called 'inconsistent information' and said it has 'no chance of driving a wedge between China and Cuba'.

Chinese warship passed in ‘unsafe manner’ near US Navy ship in Taiwan Strait, officials say

China's military rebuked the US and Canada for 'deliberately provoking risk' after the countries' navies staged a rare joint sailing through the sensitive Taiwan Strait.

3-day Shangri-La Dialogue kicks off in Singapore amid US-China tensions

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and China's new Defence Minister Li Shangfu are expected to trade barbs in speeches at the event over the weekend.

On Camera

Period pain is real. Blanket menstrual leave policy isn’t a fix

The Supreme Court is right to point out the 'mindset of employers', who, because of this policy, may deduce that 'women are inferior.'

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.