Lili Pike is a reporter at Foreign Policy covering U.S.-China relations, China’s foreign affairs, and the country’s response to climate change. Before joining FP, she reported on China and climate change at Grid, Vox, Inside Climate News, and China Dialogue. She is a graduate of Harvard University and New York University, where she received a master’s in science journalism. A native of California’s San Francisco Bay Area, she lived in Beijing for four years and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks onstage before the start of the third day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Then-Secretary of State John Kerry talks with China’s special representative on climate change, Xie Zhenhua, during the COP21 climate change summit in Le Bourget, north of Paris.
U.S. President Joe Biden, left, gestures as he walks past a U.S. flag. Ahead of him walks Chinese President Xi Jinping. Both wear suits as they walk past a large door.
Huge mounds of coal are piled beside conveyer belts and other industrial equipment in a storage facility. The ceiling curves upward and the far wall is open to the outside, letting in light that reflects off the damp ground inside the facility and creating the illusion that it is shaped like a round tunnel.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands during a welcoming ceremony at the Third Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on Oct. 17.
Chinese President Xi Jinping walks closely in front of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in front of a group of Chinese soldiers wearing formal uniforms. Both officials wear dark suits and look down at something out of view.
People hold up flags and signs during a protest in Washington, D.C., marking the 26th anniversary of the 1997 Ghulja massacre in Ghulja, in the Xinjiang province of China.
