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Trump’s woes at home, what China’s World Cup presence shows: 7 US-China relations reads

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…

By Samantha Johnson / June 16, 2026
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. Trump has an understanding with Xi. His own administration doesn’t like it

Pool photo: AFP
Pool photo: AFP

On a state visit to China last month, US President Donald Trump shocked his political base with a series of rhetorical concessions – and it was not the first time Trump’s softer stance on China clashed with his own administration’s hardline approach.

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2. US adds Alibaba, BYD, other Chinese tech champions to military company blacklist

Photo: AP
Photo: AP

The Pentagon signalled in June that it was adding Alibaba, BYD, Baidu and dozens of other Chinese companies to its list of entities it says are linked to China’s military, widening a blacklist that increasingly targets sectors at the heart of US-China technological competition.

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3. Nationals from China, India among 17 new US denaturalisation cases

Photo: Shutterstock
Photo: Shutterstock

The Trump administration is stepping up efforts to revoke the citizenship of naturalised Americans, with the US Justice Department having filed lawsuits against 17 people accused of obtaining citizenship through fraud or concealing serious crimes.

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