On a bright January morning in 1979, then US president Jimmy Carter greeted a historic guest in Washington: Deng Xiaoping, the man who unlocked China's economy. The first leader of Communist China to visit the United States,

BEIJING (Reuters) -China on Monday offered its deep condolences over the death of Jimmy Carter, saying the former U.S. president was the "driving force" behind the establishment of diplomatic ties between both countries more than 40 years ago.

“Jimmy Carter really was facing a lot of opposition” in China and the United States, said Brian P. Hilton, a historian of Cold War diplomacy. “What Carter did was he took that basic idea of ...

When I arrived at the White House, there were Rosalynn and the president, the leader of the free world holding his bible. I climbed into the limousine, and we motorcaded to church.

Carter died on Sunday, nearly two years after he entered home hospice care in Plains, Georgia, his family announced. China expressed “deep condolences” to the U.S. “As U.S. president Jimmy Carter facilitated and oversaw the establishment of ...

"Jimmy Carter’s legacy is best measured in lives changed ... Trump also said, without evidence, China operates the canal. Mulino said Carter got important work done for Panama in an era when it wasn't easy. “His time in the White House marked complex ...

Trump’s fixation on Greenland is particularly odd, though not new. Back in 2018, he offered to buy it from Denmark, which controls the large, icy island as an autonomous territory. He was outraged when the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, turned him down, calling her “ nasty ” and canceling a state visit to Copenhagen.

A cleareyed review of Biden’s term. By Carlos Lozada Ross Douthat and Michelle Cottle Produced by Andrea Betanzos and Sophia Alvarez Boyd Is President Biden more of a Jimmy Carter or a James Buchanan?

WHATEVER ELSE YOU MIGHT SAY ABOUT HIM, Donald Trump does not lack ambition. For him, making vast, sweeping promises to solve every problem the country has ever faced comes as naturally as, well, lying. Here is a partial list of things he has promised to make happen “on Day One” of his second administration.

The late president has been praised for placing human rights at the forefront of U.S. policy, but his Cold War maneuvering was marked by a familiar double standard.