Chinese Mexico-border crossers, Asian-American election fears: 7 US-China relations reads
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1. Biden insists US leads China as he explains decision to ‘pass the torch’
In his first major address since announcing he was ending his quest for a second term, US President Joe Biden said his country was leading China and vowed to bolster support for American allies in the Pacific. “When I came to office, the conventional wisdom was that China would inevitably surpass the United States,” said Biden, speaking from the Oval Office. “That’s not the case any more.”
2. China’s Xi Jinping offers sympathy to Donald Trump over rally shooting
Donald Trump was shot at a presidential campaign rally in Pennsylvania in July, in a shocking act of violence that saw a rally attendee killed and two critically wounded. China joined the chorus of international concern about the shooting, with the foreign ministry saying that Chinese President Xi Jinping had expressed his sympathies to Trump.
3. Chinese border crossers chase the American dream, with mixed success
In many ways, Shen Jiahui had been preparing for America long before his arrival in September 2023. Shen, who renamed himself Capote after the American writer Truman Capote, spent much of his 20s and 30s living outside his home province of Zhejiang, reading Western literature and dreaming of a life outside China. Had he known about the US-Mexico border crossing route earlier, the 38-year-old said he would have come sooner.
