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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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Bags of trouble

Huge haul in Dubai, as shanzhai culture lives on
Nov 29, 2019 (WiC 476)

WiC’s first mention of China’s shanzhai culture was in its inaugural issue in early 2009 – coming a few weeks after the state broadcaster CCTV became the first of the mainstream media to acknowledge the same ...

Coming full circle

Will the Rajapaksa family’s return to power see a rise in Chinese influence?
Nov 22, 2019 (WiC 475)

Visitors to Sri Lanka often come to the country in the hope of spotting a leopard at Yala National Park, which boasts the world’s highest density of panthera pardus. As of last weekend they’ll have the opportunity to observe some of the ...

The final frontier

Space scientist latest to face US visa problems
Nov 1, 2019 (WiC 472)

As vice chairman of China’s National Space Administration Wu Yanhua is used to technical challenges. During his time at the agency China carried out it longest manned space mission (33 days), launched its second space station and landed a probe ...

Finnish tycoon turns to China for undersea link
Oct 25, 2019 (WiC 471)

For decades those Estonians who make the weekly commute across the Gulf of Finland from Tallinn to Helsinki have dreamed of a faster option than the sea crossing (which can take two-and-a-half hours in bad weather). Their prayers seemed to have ...

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 ...

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