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Also, Janet Yellen leaves Beijing with hope, but no breakthroughs.

Republican governor of Florida says he would take ‘executive action as appropriate’ to revoke Beijing’s legal designation
The Republican presidential candidate and Florida governor Ron DeSantis said on Sunday he would aim to revoke China’s permanent normal trade relations status if he wins the White House next year.
“I favor doing that,” DeSantis told Fox News.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, after 10 hours of meetings with Chinese officials, said the two sides would pursue “more frequent communication” despite their deep differences.

After years of deepening economic and military mistrust between the superpowers, they were finally back in a room together
When Janet Yellen left Beijing on Sunday after four days of talks, the US treasury secretary in effect admitted that the delegation achieved its main objective simply by sitting down with top Chinese officials.
After years of dangerous and deepening separation between the people running the world’s two biggest economies, they were finally back in a room together.

The new Disney Plus series “American Born Chinese” is not a typical coming-of-age story. The series, which follows teenager Jin Wang and features this year's Academy Award winners Michelle Yeoh and Ke ...

Conscripts will serve longer in attempt to improve current crop of ‘strawberry soldiers’ who bruise too easily
For many people in Taiwan, the threat of conflict with China is a distant prospect that has been lingering in the air for some seven decades. Concern in the west that the Chinese Communist party, led by Xi Jinping in Beijing, is moving ever closer towards attempting to realise its goal of “reunifying” China and Taiwan, by force if necessary, can seem hysterical.
The only beneficiary of the increasing tension between China and Taiwan is the US, which is making money from selling arms to Taipei, jokes one resident of Kinmen, a small Taiwanese island a few miles from China’s eastern coastline.

Recent efforts to help people escape Kim Jong-un’s regime via China have been thwarted by digital surveillance, profiteering and the pandemic.

US treasury secretary feels trip to Beijing has steadied ties and improved communication despite ‘significant disagreements’ between the powers
The US treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, has said a four-day trip to Beijing has put ties with China on a “surer footing” and paved the way for better communication between top officials who run the world’s two largest economies.
This relatively modest outcome had been flagged by US officials and expected by analysts before Yellen arrived, and is a reflection of how fraught one of the world’s most critical relationships had become.

Relations between the two biggest economies are at their lowest level in decades due to disputes about technology, security and other irritants.

Janet Yellen, the Treasury secretary, said China, the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, can have “greater impact” tackling climate change by working with other nations.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen bowed to Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng before a meeting in Beijing, China on Saturday — a move that some Americans found inappropriate.