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China and the World

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Canadian ambassador fired for Huawei remarks
Feb 1, 2019 (WiC 439)

When two pandas were born at Toronto zoo in 2016, Canada’s leader Justin Trudeau helped to name them. He had just been elected and he had promised to boost ties with China during his campaign. The future looked bright, so the cubs were named ...

Huawei CFO released on bail in case that casts shadow over trade talks
Dec 14, 2018 (WiC 435)

The two defining themes in Sino-US relations over the last 12 months – trade war and tech rivalry – have combined in a furious finish to the year. They came together on the first day of December in the arrest of Huawei’s chief financial ...

Shanghai’s latest expo rebrands China as an import giant
Nov 9, 2018 (WiC 431)

Trade fairs often have an outsized impact in China. For instance, eight years ago WiC published a special edition on the Shanghai Expo. That lavish event was deftly positioned as a celebration of China’s arrival on the global stage. But in ...

The Editor of Asian Affairs assesses improvements in Sino-Japanese ties
Oct 26, 2018 (WiC 429)

Five years ago it would have been almost inconceivable that the Prime Minister of Japan, Abe Shinzo, would be so warmly welcomed in China. At that time, the Chinese state media portrayed Abe as a revisionist, who made light of Japan’s ...

Is the China-US trade spat turning into a new Cold War?
Oct 19, 2018 (WiC 428)

The term ‘Cold War’ was first introduced by the author George Orwell to describe conflict pursued more by economic and political means rather than by military might. But historians tend to date the onset of the superpower rivalry that ...

Interpol embarrassed by detention of its president in China
Oct 19, 2018 (WiC 428)

The International Criminal Police Organisation, better known as Interpol, specialises in manhunts, issuing “red notices” for wanted criminals and “yellow notices” for missing persons. But even the 95 year-old agency was stumped in ...

Military row highlights growing Sino-US split
Oct 5, 2018 (WiC 427)

Donald Trump’s touting of his friendship with Xi Jinping has always been tough to fathom, especially at a time when trade tensions have been getting nasty. Last week he admitted as much, telling reporters that Xi “he may not be a friend of ...

An insider account of Trump’s stance on China, trade and Xi Jinping
Sep 21, 2018 (WiC 425)

Fans of the Netflix show Ozark will be familiar with the Missouri terrain in which the money- laundering drama is set. What they may not realise is that the American military considers the topography of the Ozarks similar to North Korea. ...

Is the China-US trade row set to escalate further?
Sep 14, 2018 (WiC 424)

Donald Trump got his facts wrong this week when he tweeted that the growth rate in the American economy was higher than its unemployment rate for the first time in a century. Kevin Hassett, chairman of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisors, ...

Over 50 African leaders visit Beijing to discuss Xi’s Belt and Road goals
Sep 7, 2018 (WiC 423)

First mentioned by Chinese President Xi Jinping during a state visit to Kazakhstan five years ago, the Belt and Road Initiative (or BRI) celebrates its birthday this week. Backers of the biggest infrastructure build-out the world has ever ...

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