Straits Times webinar to discuss stormy relationship between US and China

Joe Biden, who was then US Vice-President, with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in this file picture from Dec 4, 2013. - Reuters

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): When US President Joe Biden took office in January, there were hopes that the US and China would patch up their relationship, soured under former president Donald Trump. But more than four months into Biden's presidency, the fall-out continues.

Not only did Biden maintain the Trump-era sanctions on Chinese companies, but he also imposed more sanctions on two dozen officials in Hong Kong and China, including a Politburo member, over their involvement in the suppression of pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong.