DIDI TANG

Asian affairs reporter

Tang joined the AP Washington bureau in 2023 after spending 11 years in Beijing as a China correspondent. She covers anything related to the Indo-Pacific region with a focus on U.S.-China competitions

U.S. flag themed wearables are displayed at the Yiwu International Trade Market in Yiwu, eastern China's Zhejiang province, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

As Trump alienates allies with US tariffs, China is poised to exploit the gaps

A stock investor stands in front of the stock price indices at a brokerage house in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Monday, April 7, 2025. (Chinatopix Via AP)

The United States and China are locked in a faceoff over tariffs. No one wants to blink first

Vuthy Tha, a Cambodian reporter at Radio Free Asia who spent 7 years in a Thai refugee camp before arriving in the United States, poses for a portrait, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, at the RFA office in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Foreign journalists at US-backed media fear being sent to repressive homelands after Trump’s cuts

A worker loads rolls of steel plate at a steel market in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province, Monday, March 31, 2025. (Chinatopix Via AP)

China slaps a 34% tax on all US imports in retaliation for Trump’s tariffs

This image released by the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense shows China’s Shandong aircraft carrier sailing near Taiwan on Monday, March 31, 2025. (Taiwan Ministry of National Defense via AP)

US and Chinese military officials hold talks on maritime security in bid to lower risks

A worker loads boxes of goods from a truck outside a wholesale clothing mall in Beijing on June 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

No more cheap skirts: Trump ends tax exemption for low-value Chinese imports

Uniformed and plainclothes security officers stand guard outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, Aug. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

US bans government personnel in China from romantic or sexual relations with Chinese citizens

A Tesla robot is displayed as U.S. robotics companies look for congressional support to compete with Chinese companies, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US robotics companies push for national strategy, including a central office, to compete with China

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks with reporters following the G7 foreign ministers meeting in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada, on Friday, March 14, 2025. (Saul Loeb, Pool Photo via AP)

US imposes sanctions on Thai officials after Uyghur men are deported to China

Workers construct the hull of a vessel at the STX shipbuilding plant on Changxing Island, on the outskirt of Dalian, in northeast China's Liaoning province, Sept. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China’s shipbuilding dominance poses economic and national security risks for the US, a report says

President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

China learned from Trump’s first trade war and changed its tactics when tariffs came again

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen speaks as she participates in a panel discussion during the Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

New Senate bill seeks to tackle the flow of fentanyl into the US from China and Mexico

Chinese Premier Li Qiang, right, chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping after the opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China and US: Two leaders, two speeches, two differing world visions

A cargo ship goes through the Panama Canal's Cocoli locks in Panama City, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

BlackRock strikes deal to bring ports on both sides of Panama Canal under American control

President Donald Trump walks before talking with reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Giant chipmaker TSMC to spend $100B to expand chip manufacturing in US, Trump announces

U.S. President Donald Trump, right, chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Trump’s freeze on foreign aid could give China an opening on the world stage

Trucks line up to enter a Port of Oakland shipping terminal on Nov. 10, 2021, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Trump pauses tariffs on millions of low-value packages from China

President Donald Trump shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

After talking tough during campaign, Trump appears to ease up on China at start of presidency

Chinese President Xi Jinping takes part in the Economic Leaders Meeting during the APEC summit in Lima, Peru on Nov. 16, 2024. (Sean Kilpatrick /The Canadian Press via AP, File)

China and US partners are moving closer as Trump returns to the White House

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a New Year message on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024 in Beijing to ring in 2025. (Ju Peng/Xinhua via AP)

Trump and Chinese leader Xi talk about trade, fentanyl and TikTok

Chinese Vice President Han Zheng attend a meeting with Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. (Florence Lo/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping will send a special representative to Trump’s inauguration

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be Secretary of State, appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Marco Rubio warns China is America’s ‘biggest threat,’ affirms value of NATO alliance

University of Michigan to end partnership with a Chinese university over national security concerns

Russell Hedrick prepares a DJI drone to put crop cover on his farm, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in Hickory, N.C. (AP Photo/Allison Joyce)

Congress is looking to ban Chinese drones that are widely used in US. What to know about the debate

Russell Hedrick prepares a DJI drone to put crop cover on his farm, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in Hickory, N.C. (AP Photo/Allison Joyce)

Many Americans have come to rely on Chinese-made drones. Now lawmakers want to ban them

Republican senators demand an end to science and tech cooperation with China

FILE - The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Zhangjiakou, China, on Feb. 2, 2022. A top White House official on Wednesday said at least eight U.S. telecom firms and dozens of nations have been impacted by a Chinese hacking campaign. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

Chinese national charged with acting as Beijing’s agent in local California election

The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Zhangjiakou, China, Feb. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

US updates a science and technology pact with China to reflect growing rivalry and security threats

China's President Xi Jinping gathers for the world leaders' group photo at the G20 Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

China’s Xi is likely to decline Trump’s inauguration invitation, seeing it as too risky to attend

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks on as he receives the Royal Order of the Polar Star ahead of the start of the 31st Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Ministerial summit, in Ta'Qali, Malta, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (Alberto Pizzoli/Pool Photo via AP)

Five years since its inception, a US development agency competes with China on global projects

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