Welcome back to the China In Eurasia briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter tracking China’s resurgent influence from Eastern Europe to Central Asia.
I’m RFE/RL correspondent Reid Standish and here’s what I’m following right now.
Xi’s Upside And Downside
Former President Donald Trump has declared victory in the U.S. election against Vice President Kamala Harris.
It’s an outcome that will have implications far beyond the United States, so here’s what another Trump administration could look like for China.
Finding Perspective: Beijing and Washington are the world’s two largest economies and another Trump term will have a major impact on where the relationship between the two rival powers goes.
There is something of a consensus in Washington when it comes to Beijing, with a focus on constraining China’s continued rise on the world stage.
Trump’s previous term saw a trade war, with him slapping tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of Chinese goods and launching a global campaign against Chinese telecoms giant …