Trans-Pacific View

A former Los Angeles mayor, Eric Garcetti was nominated back in July 2021 to be the Biden administration’s ambassador to India. 

Metaphorical mines litter the landing site for the Marines at Camp Blaz, from a lack of preparedness to a lack of true community consent.

Reports that China interfered in Canada’s 2021 elections should raise alarms in the United States.

History shows us that blithely chasing consensus could lead decision-makers in Washington astray, with disastrous consequences.

China policy has become a proxy for different economic strategies at home: more investment (and deficit spending) vs. budget cuts and a market-driven approach.

A free trade pact makes sense for both countries, and the reasons are as much political as they are economic.

Comments by Senator Imee Marcos, the sister of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., raise the question of where the outer limits of U.S.-Philippine cooperation lie.

By designating China a developed rather than developing nation, proposed U.S. legislation would challenge the credibility of how Beijing frames its international cooperation. 

The threat came after the U.S. sanctioned six Chinese entities it said are linked to Beijing's aerospace surveillance program.

It made headlines when Baimadajie Angwang was accused of feeding information about Tibetan refugees to Beijing. But the charges were quietly dropped.

Omar – and other progressive Democrats – seem to be pivoting toward a harder line stance on China as they come under Republican fire.