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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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A $30 billion trip

Xi Jinping makes his long-rumoured Saudi visit
Dec 9, 2022 (WiC 611)

When Joe Biden arrived in Riyadh in July, no Saudi minister welcomed him at the airport. The US president was cold-shouldered amid tensions between his administration and the Saudis over a range of issues that included oil production and the ...

‘Golden era’ is over

Nuclear deal reversed as Sino-UK ties worsen
Dec 2, 2022 (WiC 610)

In testy remarks captured on camera at the G20 summit in Indonesia last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping gave Justin Trudeau a dressing-down, accusing the Canadian prime minister of leaking the details of a previous meeting to the ...

‘Red lines’ and Strait talking

As Biden and Xi meet in Bali it’s another island – Taiwan – that looms large
Nov 18, 2022 (WiC 608)

When Joe Biden won the US presidential election in late 2020, there was plenty of interest from the media in his personal relationship with Xi Jinping, The two men had not only met on a number of occasions in their careers but had lengthy, ...

Lula’s presidential win is welcomed in Beijing
Nov 11, 2022 (WiC 607)

In a political comeback for the ages, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is Brazilian president once again. Just three years ago, the 77 year-old was serving prison time after a conviction for corruption. Now he’s back at the helm of Latin America’s ...

A welcoming host

Xi kicks off third term with a week of diplomacy
Nov 4, 2022 (WiC 606)

It’s been a hectic week for the protocol experts at China’s foreign ministry, following a flurry of arrivals from foreign governments. Pakistani President Shehbaz Sharif came to town on Tuesday, followed by Samia Suluhu Hassan, the ...

Sino-US business ties in focus yet again
Oct 28, 2022 (WiC 605)

Monday was another disappointing day for Chinese firms in the stock markets with the Shanghai and Shenzhen benchmarks both losing about 2% of their value. But it was much worse in Hong Kong, where the bourse fell more than 6% in its worst day of ...

Decoupling in Duisburg?

Sino-German relations come into focus after 50 years of formal ties
Oct 20, 2022 (WiC 604)

Helmut Schmidt, the former German chancellor, was one of a small group of foreigners deemed to be “an old friend of the Chinese people” (601 people from 123 countries were awarded the accolade between 1949 and 2010, the People’s Daily ...

Plugging the gap

Europeans snap up China-made electric blankets as winter looms
Oct 7, 2022 (WiC 603)

‘Winter is coming’ is the much-repeated warning on the hugely popular TV series Game of Thrones. For many in Europe, it seems like a very real concern this year. The winter months are increasingly dreaded, with worries about soaring ...

Pinduoduo apes SheIn with cross-border push
Sep 23, 2022 (WiC 601)

Chinese ultra-fast fashion clothing brand SheIn sold $16 billion worth of goods in the first half of the year, up more than half year-on-year. The privately-held company – which has struck a chord with Gen-Z consumers around the world with its ...

The perestroika parable

How the Chinese reacted to the death of Mikhail Gorbachev
Sep 9, 2022 (WiC 599)

A great ruler in China was often likened to the monarchs Yao and Shun. The Chinese saw these two emperors as paragons of moral perfection. Legend had it they passed their thrones not to their sons but to successors with the most qualifying ...

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