Half a century ago, when the US president Richard Nixon visited China, the leaders of China and the United States decided to reach out to each other for "a handshake across the Pacific Ocean".They issued the Shanghai Communique, breaking the isolation from each other and starting the normalization of relations between China and the US.

Whatever one might think about the future of the China-US relationship, Nixon’s visit half a century ago offers a useful reminder: if enemies could become friends then, competitors are not bound to be come enemies today. Not only Nixon could go to China.

MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Against such backdrops as the deepening crisis over Ukraine and the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing 58th edition of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), held from Friday to Sunday, focuses on the theme of "unlearning helplessness."

The swift and decisive response by countries of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to the riots in Kazakhstan raises a question for its peer in the region, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO): can it become equally effective in a similar situation?

After Joe Biden took office, the United States basically stuck with the China policy it inherited from Donald Trump — strategic competition — but some adjustments have been made as to ways and means.

US President Joe Biden came to office promising to correct the mistakes of the Trump administration. He has now been in office for a year and it’s time to review some of his achievements.

There are so many daunting challenges in the nuclear arena that many suspect that disorder might be the defining feature of the future. Some of the challenges were created by the nuclear powers; others arise from emerging technologies.

The US Federal Reserve has just released its bi-annual financial stability report, in which it picked up "stresses in China's real estate sector which could strain the Chinese financial system, with possible spillovers to the US," rendering it an economic threat for US.

China-U.S. relations, which deteriorated steadily after the Trump administration launched it so-called trade war in May 2018 and have been stagnant since Biden's inauguration in January, have finally shown some positive momentum. The release of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou pulled out a painful thorn. Ranking diplomats of the two countries held fruitful talks in Zurich, and trade, climate and military teams have begun reestablish contact. Most important, presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden are expected to meet virtually by the end of this year, according to the American side. The question now is how far Beijing and Washington will go, and in what direction.

In America’s script for strategic competition with China, the United Nations plays a key role. In a departure from the Trump administration, President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party elite place greater emphasis on understanding the challenges posed by China in the context of the international system, in particular the U.S.-China rivalry in affairs related to the UN. Some U.S. experts suggest that Beijing is stepping up its efforts to shape a “UN with Chinese characteristics.” Hence, the UN is becoming one of the main battlegrounds for the U.S. against China, a phenomenon that threatens to further destabilize the international system.

Against the backdrop of a high inflation crisis, a serious supply chain tension has become an acute issue in the US with a swath of cargo ships stranded in ports while Americans may face empty shelves on the cusp of the holiday season. So it's not surprising that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg predicted during a recent CNN interview that supply chain issues will continue into next year. Citing reasons of an imbalance between supply and demand, as well as infrastructure problems, Buttigieg also took the chance to push the Biden administration's infrastructure spending bill which has stalled in House of Representatives and faces significant surgery if there is any chance of becoming law.

On Oct. 6, Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, met with U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in Zurich, Switzerland — another strategic engagement following the phone call between Chinese and U.S. heads-of-state on Sept. 10.