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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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Ruckus over AUKUS

Australian submarine purchases sparks fury in France and China
Sep 24, 2021 (WiC 557)

It’s not often that China and France claim diplomatic outrage over the same event. Yet the announcement of a new defence pact between the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom has them both hopping mad. France is annoyed because ...

Ruffled feathers

What does Chinese attack on Canada Goose suggest?
Sep 24, 2021 (WiC 557)

“The moon isn’t rounder in foreign countries, and foreign down jackets aren’t any warmer either”. That’s what the Beijing-based Economic Times claimed earlier this month in support of a fine of Rmb450,000 ($69,621) for parka maker ...

Steely approach

Baosteel signs Saudi deal
Sep 24, 2021 (WiC 557)

Saudi Arabia’s oil-producing titan Saudi Aramco is hoping that it will be third time lucky in getting a massive new steel plant off the ground in the kingdom after signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China’s Baosteel. Two ...

Biden phones Xi but bilateral ties stay tense
Sep 17, 2021 (WiC 556)

The Biden administration is said to have lobbied its counterparts in Beijing this year to agree to a “red phone” hotline between the two governments, similar to the one that linked the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. In fact ...

A bridge too far

Ankara sends mixed Belt and Road messages with aborted deal
Sep 10, 2021 (WiC 555)

What does it mean to be Turkish? It’s a question that its leaders have grappled with for centuries, thanks to the country’s location on the continental boundary between Asia and Europe. The answer is becoming more pressing in a multipolar ...

Capitulation in Kabul

What a hasty US pull-out and an Afghan regime collapse mean for China
Aug 20, 2021 (WiC 552)

There are only five mentions of the Taliban in WiC over the last 13 years. Perhaps that’s because Chinese media outlets haven’t been particularly keen on reporting what is happening in Afghanistan, a restive neighbour that shares a short ...

Beijing’s Beltway guy

The career of top diplomat Cui Tiankai is a good way to assess Sino-US ties
Jul 2, 2021 (WiC 547)

In 1996 the United States was threatening to unleash a trade war against China following a dispute over copyright piracy. “Confrontation will lead nowhere,” a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said at the time, arguing that the only way ...

Vaccine diplomacy

How the politics of Covid-19 is preventing a quicker victory over the virus
Jun 18, 2021 (WiC 545)

After getting to know each other for just 49 days, Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu and Wang Xiaofei, the mainland Chinese heir to the South Beauty restaurant group, were married in Hainan a decade ago. The wedding (see WiC101) had a fairy tale ...

Statements of intent

Biden courts allies as G7 and NATO summits cite ‘China challenge’
Jun 18, 2021 (WiC 545)

Claims that Joe Biden was an “old friend” of China’s leader Xi Jinping were always going to be tested once he took office (see WiC518). But the way that the American president has been working on putting together a new alliance against ...

Why hopes of an improvement in Sino-US ties may be wishful thinking
Jun 11, 2021 (WiC 544)

The first senior-level meeting between the US and China for more than six months in March turned into more of a dogfight than a diplomatic triumph, with the two sides taking pot shots at one another in Anchorage in front of a flabbergasted ...

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