US-China Relations

President Joe Biden says the U.S. would intervene militarily if China were to invade Taiwan. It was one of the most forceful presidential statements in support of self-governing in decades. Biden spoke at a news conference in Tokyo and said the burden to protect Taiwan was “even stronger” after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The U.S. traditionally has avoided making such...

President Joe Biden is off to South Korea and Japan on a six-day trip aimed at building rapport with the Asian nations’ leaders. Biden will try to send a message to China that Russia’s faltering invasion of Ukraine should give Beijing pause about its own saber-rattling in the Pacific. Biden departed Thursday and is set to meet newly elected South...

China says its military has staged exercises to reinforce its threat to use force to bring Taiwan under its control, as U.S. lawmakers visiting Taiwan made a pointed and public declaration of support for the self-governing island democracy while issuing a warning to China

A top U.S. commander says China has fully militarized at least three of several islands it built in the disputed South China Sea and has armed them with anti-ship and anti-aircraft missile systems, laser and jamming equipment, and fighter jets

Face to face by video, President Joe Biden has laid out to China’s Xi Jinping the consequences China would face if it provides military or economic assistance for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Washington has expelled another state-owned Chinese phone carrier from the U.S. market over national security concerns amid rising tension with Beijing

China pushed back on three U.S. officials’ claims that Russia had requested support from China, including military equipment, to press forward in its ongoing war with Ukraine.

China’s top diplomat has called on the U.S. to take steps to improve ties, as tensions simmer over Taiwan, trade and other issues

At the height of the Cold War, U.S. President Richard Nixon flew into communist China’s center of power for a visit that, over time, would transform U.S.-China relations and China’s position in the world

China’s U.N. ambassador has fired back at his U.S. counterpart over her remarks that sending a member of the Uyghur ethnic group to help deliver the Olympic flame was an attempt to “distract” from the issue of abuses

Facing domestic pressures at home, both Biden and Xi seemed determined to lower the temperature in what for both sides is their most significant relationship on the global stage.

President Joe Biden says the U.S. has restored its presence on the world stage, as he has used his first overseas trip to connect with a new generation of leaders from some of the world’s most powerful countries and more closely unite allies around addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and China’s trade and labor practices

The Senate has overwhelmingly approved legislation aiming to boost semiconductor production in the U.S. The bill is a bid to protect economic and national security in the face of growing international competition, most notably from China.

President Joe Biden’s decision to announce an intensified 90-day review into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic came about in part because of the Chinese government’s refusal to participate in an investigation by the World Health Organization, a source familiar with the decision told NBC News.

The Biden administration’s first high-level meeting between U.S. and Chinese representatives got off to a tense start on Thursday as both sides threw jabs at their rival’s political weaknesses.

An executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei says it is running out of processor chips to make smartphones due to U.S. sanctions.

Microsoft is in advanced talks to buy the US operations of TikTok, the popular Chinese owned video app that has been a source of national security and censorship concerns

In the more than 40 years since China and the U.S. established formal diplomatic relations, accusations have been traded, tensions have risen and fallen and the two sides have come dangerously close to outright confrontation.

A Chinese researcher accused of concealing her ties to her country’s military on a visa application she submitted to so she could work in the U.S. has been booked into a Northern California jail

Already strained relations between China and the United States were further muddied after U.S. Congress overwhelmingly approved a bill targeting Beijing’s mass crackdown on ethnic Muslim minorities Wednesday, less than one week after President Donald Trump signed separate human rights legislation on Hong Kong. China’s ruling Communist Party has long regarded Hong Kong and the far west Xinjiang region...