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China and the World

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China reacts to Qatar debacle and wonders if it could get 2022 World Cup
Jun 16, 2017 (WiC 370)

“From the moment that FIFA president Sepp Blatter revealed the name of the host country of the 2022 World Cup, the entire nation of Qatar was overcome by joy and jubilation,” began a press release by FIFA in late 2010. It continued: “It was ...

How US quitting climate change accord will impact China’s world role
Jun 9, 2017 (WiC 369)

US President Donald Trump’s June 1 speech announcing America’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord was laden with implied references to China. He labelled the deal “unfair”, “draconian” and designed to give other countries ...

Trump sends an “old friend” of China to be his ambassador in Beijing
Jun 2, 2017 (WiC 368)

Washington has sent 12 ambassadors to Beijing since restoring full diplomatic relations in 1979. Among them, three were born in pre-revolutionary China (Arthur Hummel, James Lilley and J Stapleton Roy), several could speak fluent Chinese (most ...

Sports diplomacy on display as Aussie Rules Football debuts in Shanghai
May 19, 2017 (WiC 366)

“Excuse me, but what’s a ‘behind’?” asked the Chinese student sitting next to WiC’s man at the first-of-its-kind clash in the Australian Football League in Shanghai on Sunday. Your correspondent – who is not an Aussie – was ...

Kushner Companies takes its project to China
May 12, 2017 (WiC 365)

Over a hundred affluent Chinese investors gathered at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Beijing last week to hear about a new development in Jersey City. While foreign developers and brokers often host road shows in China to market their projects, the ...

How a fugitive tycoon has been making trouble for China’s leaders
Apr 28, 2017 (WiC 363)

“He did not fit any of the categories for the United States giving him asylum. He had a record of corruption, of thuggishness, brutality… he was trying to somehow get his way to a place of safety,” is what Hillary Clinton said to the ...

Pakistan’s donkey dealers benefit from the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
Apr 21, 2017 (WiC 362)

Media coverage of the $62 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has focused on Chinese investment in oil and gas pipelines, a key port in Gwadar and a much-needed network of roads, railways and power stations. In the longer run, ...

Trump’s son-in-law at centre stage as Xi arrives
Apr 7, 2017 (WiC 361)

Who is going to win the battle on China policy at the White House? On one side are men like Gary Cohn, Donald Trump’s chief economic advisor, and Steve Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary. Taking a more conciliatory view of relations with the ...

Canberra shelves Chinese extradition treaty
Apr 7, 2017 (WiC 361)

Australians are well aware that much of their economy is export-dependent, and that China is an increasingly vital importer of things like Aussie wine and iron ore. However, the one thing the former UK penal colony will not send to China is ...

Top diplomat prepares for Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping
Mar 24, 2017 (WiC 359)

The last time that Rex Tillerson was making headlines in China’s media he was being told to prepare for war, after likening the country’s island-building programme in the South China Sea to “Russia’s taking of Crimea”. “Tillerson ...

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