Dr Yu Jie

“This visit has not changed Xi Jinping and the Chinese leadership’s assessment towards the United States, which is protracted competition and protracted rivalry.”

President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday for a two-day summit. The question that hovers over the encounter is deceptively simple: what does China want?

America’s greatest export was never democracy or consumer culture. It was the template for global power itself.

On this episode of the Fourcast, Matt Frei is joined by Dr Yu Jie, senior research fellow on China at Chatham House.

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Notwithstanding Chinese leaders’ stated global vision, the regime’s diplomacy must serve the interests of its domestic political economy first and foremost.

‘We don’t know how this trade war is going to end, but surely I think what China is trying to do now is nothing to do with the economic rationale, it’s more to do with the politics.’

As Moscow’s top trading partner, Beijing wields substantial economic leverage over the Kremlin.

Christopher Sabatini and Yu Jie write how a second Trump administration needs to do more than saber-rattle in Latin America, and what China did right in the region.

Dr Yu Jie, Senior Research Fellow on China in the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House on China’s political landscape.

Regardless of whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris wins the US presidential election in November, Chinese decision-makers expect bitter disputes over trade, technology, and Taiwan.

‘China is feeling rightly confident because of its industrial policies,’ said Yu Jie, a China expert at Chatham House, a UK think-tank.

Beijing’s priorities for 2024 reflect goal of standing up to U.S. pressure.

Slight warming in U.S.-China ties emerges from San Francisco summit.

“Beijing has been pro-Palestinian since Mao’s days and is mindful about the US’s close ties with Israel … [now] almost anything that the US supports, China must be against,” said Dr Yu Jie.

Yu Jie, said a close reading of Chinese government announcements and speeches over recent months showed the top leadership was clear-eyed about the severity of the economic downturn.

Yu Jie speaks to NPR China’s policy of self-reliance.

“[Xi’s initiatives] show China’s clearest intention yet to update the rules of global governance that were written by the collective west in the aftermath of world war two,” says Yu Jie.

The war is a test of China’s ability to manage its interests. Putin, Zelenskiy, the EU, the global south: it’s trying to keep them all on side.

“Wang Yi in his statement did not mention the phrase ‘no-limits’ partner,” said Yu Jie, senior research fellow at UK think-tank Chatham House. “That is quite a shift that shows Beijing is trying to put a little daylight between China and Russia.”

Western sanctions would cause “colossal damage both economically and politically to Xi’s leadership”, said Yu Jie, a senior research fellow on China at the Chatham House thinktank.

“Diplomatically, Beijing hopes it will not become a rival to every country in the west and nor does it wish to look isolated at multilateral fora,” says Yu Jie.

In its efforts to maintain ties with both Russia and Europe, China is wading through a briar patch of conflicting interests and rapidly changing sentiments.

Economic and diplomatic challenges will test incoming State Council

Surveillance balloons have appeared over US soil before – the president’s reaction is a sign of how boxed in he is by Republicans

Beijing needs prevent the exit from zero-Covid from creating waves of cases that would overwhelm the limited numbers of state-funded hospitals.

Tensions are high between the US and China over Taiwan. China wants reunification, the US says it will defend Taiwan. Will there be conflict and what form could that take?

Beijing must learn from its mistakes if it is to make a success of the Global Development Initiative.

China has launched a new grand concept geared toward sustainable development in the Global South. But, given its own slowing economy and entrenched political priorities, success is far from guaranteed.

This Conservative Party election focuses on how to revive the British domestic economy, while China-UK relations and British foreign affairs, which China is concerned about, have been mentioned, but they are not the main issues in the party election.