President Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House has coincided with some sharp changes in allied countries’ assessments of the importance of Chinese economic ties.

China has warned that it may block the sale of Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison's international ports, including one on either end of the Panama Canal, to a United States-linked consortium unless China's state-owned shipping giant, COSCO, is included in the agreement.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he thinks China will begin sentencing people to death for fentanyl manufacturing and distribution.

Long before President Trump wielded tariffs as a weapon to punish Indonesia, the country was fighting back a flood of cheap Chinese goods.

Even as US President Donald Trump upends China’s factory floors, he seems to be laying the ground for an easing in the tech war. In a reversal this week, the White House told chipmaker Nvidia it could soon resume sales of its less advanced China-focused H20 artificial intelligence accelerator.

The US has given chipmakers like Nvidia and AMD the opportunity to sell their chips to China again. Derrick Irwin, portfolio manager at Allspring Global Investments, says the US may have retain some dominance,

Global views of China and its leader Xi Jinping have improved, while opinions of the U.S. and Donald Trump have declined.

Although Donald Trump presents himself as a fierce adversary of China, some of his policy moves appear to be a significant boon for the People's Republic. In Spring, as Trump's chaotic tariff war captured headlines,