Three American citizens who had been detained for years in China were released, a State Department spokesperson said Wednesday.

China announced Thursday that the U.S. had returned four people to China, including three citizens it said had been held for “political purposes.”

RUSH DOSHI is Director of the Initiative on China Strategy at the Council on Foreign Relations and an Assistant Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He previously served as Deputy Senior Director for China and Taiwan Affairs at the National Security Council during the Biden administration.

Beijing's commerce ministry said tariffs wouldn't 'solve America's own problems.' Investors are taking a wait-and-see approach.

Hello, this is Colum Murphy in Beijing, where Donald Trump’s penchant for doing the surprising … well … surprised everyone again this week.