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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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A long road ahead

Xi and Modi sidestep tensions in informal talks
Oct 18, 2019 (WiC 470)

China and India both boast civilisations that can trace their origins back thousands of years. Yet even in that context, a century seems like rather a long time to sort out strained relations between the two nations. That was the timeframe ...

Slammed and dunked

The NBA’s fallout with China comes at a time of trade and tech tensions
Oct 18, 2019 (WiC 470)

Sport often plays a role whenever there’s a rejigging in Sino-US relations. For instance, in August 1979 the Washington Bullets were the first NBA team to play in China – the same year that Beijing resumed official ties with Washington. When ...

A gamble on gas

Filipino leader focuses on profits rather than politics in China policy
Sep 27, 2019 (WiC 468)

Three and a half years ago, when he was campaigning to become president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte said he would confront the Chinese navy personally – on a jet ski, if needs be – in defending Filipino sovereignty. Since taking ...

The guns of August

Trump unleashed a barrage of tweets this month to escalate the trade war
Aug 30, 2019 (WiC 464)

Buy American seemed to be the message emanating from Shanghai this Tuesday when Costco finally opened its doors in China. So popular proved the US wholesale chain – famed for its rock-bottom prices – that management was forced to close early ...

Confucius Institutes ejected by New South Wales schools
Aug 30, 2019 (WiC 464)

The Chinese sage Confucius has this to say about trust: “I used to take on trust a man’s deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man’s words I go on to observe his deeds”. Australia, it seems, is unhappy with ...

Degrees of danger

Americans at top Chinese university worried by FBI probes on return home
Aug 30, 2019 (WiC 464)

The old saying “玉不琢，不成器” (yù bù zhuó, bù chéng qì) – “One cannot become useful without being educated” translates more literally as “If a jade is not cut and polished, it can’t be made into anything.” For ...

Fashion faux pas

Why luxury brands are apologising to China
Aug 23, 2019 (WiC 463)

China is expected to overtake the US as the world’s largest consumer market this year, according to New York-based research firm eMarketer. So it’s not hard to see why international brands were quick to apologise when they got caught in the ...

In thrall to history

New books seeks to explain Sino-Japanese rivalry
Aug 2, 2019 (WiC 462)

If the relationship between China and the United States is the most important relationship in the world, then arguably the second most important relationship is that between China, which is about to become the world’s largest economy, and its ...

Tech wars, round two

Spat between Seoul and Tokyo could help China’s chip goals
Aug 2, 2019 (WiC 462)

South Korea’s leader Moon Jae-in likes to be known as the Dark King because of his resemblance to the anime character of the same name. But that’s probably the limit to how far he wants to be seen as embracing Japanese culture. Since he ...

Beautiful friendship (part 2)

Another twist in the trade row as Trump softens ban on sales to Huawei
Jul 5, 2019 (WiC 458)

Perhaps the beginning of the end of the Cold War can be traced back to the 1971 world table tennis championships in Japan’s Nagoya. Prior to that diplomatic ties between China and the US had been severed since 1949. The icy relations began to ...

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