Day: October 1, 2025

We have selected seven of the most interesting and important news stories covering US-China relations from the past few weeks. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Global order fracturing, status quo unlikely to return, EU warns in new report Photo: Shutterstock After months of being pummelled with trade tariffs and security threats from the United States and years of pushing back against a rising China, the European Union in September sounded a death knell for the global rules-based order. Advertisement Read the…

China’s embassy in Mexico issued a sharp rebuke after a US diplomat urged Mexico to help Washington reduce reliance on Chinese-made semiconductors, calling the remarks coercive and accusing the United States of practising “economic bullying”. Advertisement In a statement posted on Wednesday on X, the embassy said recent comments by Mark Johnson, the chargé d’affaires at the US embassy in Mexico, “revealed Washington’s true intentions”. Johnson had told the Mexico-US Semiconductor Forum that the United States “will not tolerate dependence on critical technologies from China” and that Mexico must play…

TikTok travesty Have you noticed what has happened to media coverage of TikTok, along with public discourse and general commentary on the American takeover of China’s phenomenally popular short-video platform in the United States? Advertisement Everyone is talking about the deal that will keep the social media app alive for 183 million American users by transferring ownership from Chinese internet giant ByteDance to a consortium of covetous US companies under the auspices of President Donald Trump’s administration. They will buy an 80 per cent stake in a newly set up…

The American federal government has been effectively shut down since Wednesday after the US Congress failed to pass a bipartisan funding bill, a development that could erode the country’s image and sap the morale of its team dealing with China, according to analysts. Advertisement The shutdown happened because Congress could not pass either a Democratic-backed proposal aimed at extending healthcare subsidies due to expire soon or a Republican-supported stopgap measure that would have funded the government for seven weeks. It is Washington’s first government shutdown since 2018, which occurred during…

Sapphire Dingler was shaken as the dark past emerged before her. Advertisement Dingler, a US master’s student in public history at Southern New Hampshire University, was sifting through newly digitised American archives when she stumbled upon testimony about a Japanese doctor’s grisly wartime experiments on Western prisoners in Tokyo. The doctor was Hisakichi Tokuda, a young and ambitious physician inspired by Unit 731, an imperial Japanese Army base in northern China infamous for biological warfare and torturing captives in the name of “medical research”. One of Tokuda’s “nutrition” experiments involved…

Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Marco Rubio marks China’s National Day with message of peace, prosperity from US US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has sent a congratulatory message for China’s National Day, reinstating a tradition to mark the occasion before October 1 arrives in the United States. 2. China’s military sees threat in expanded US drills with Japan and South Korea The US military’s expanded joint cyber and…