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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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Losing the debate

Chinese media sees Trump-Biden brawl as sign of America’s decline
Oct 2, 2020 (WiC 513)

Until the 1990s observers from the West often mocked China’s so-called ‘old man politics’. That was when the so-called “Eight Immortals” – eight Communist Revolutionaries who took part in the Long March and helped found the People’s ...

Auf wiedersehen, Angela

Slow progress on EU-China investment accord, as Merkel era nears end
Sep 25, 2020 (WiC 512)

Donald Trump’s condemnation of the Chinese government in a speech to the United Nations this week was uncompromising, contrasting with the more subdued scenes at an online summit between China and the European Union a few days earlier. Even ...

Every second counts

TikTok struggles to strike a deal as deadline looms for sale of US business
Sep 4, 2020 (WiC 509)

Bytedance CEO Zhang Yiming has had three separate chances to sell the social media firm that he founded in 2012. He decided to stay put each time, turning down the several chances to become a multi-billionaire overnight. But this time he ...

Shooting the messenger

American firms worry about the impact of a proposed ban on WeChat
Sep 4, 2020 (WiC 509)

Nearly 14,000 executive orders have been issued since George Washington became the first president of the United States. Some of the more controversial ‘instant laws’ – which require no approval from Congress – have included a ban on ...

Diplomatic exit

Consulates close down, as Sino-US tensions simmer
Jul 31, 2020 (WiC 506)

Past experience means America’s overseas diplomats must keep an eye on the emergency exits. The last-gasp airlift from the embassy roof in Saigon in 1975 is one of the most dramatic of their departures. Staff in Tehran didn’t get out in time ...

US defence giant may face China rare earths ban
Jul 24, 2020 (WiC 505)

It says something about the strained mood in Sino-US relations that discussion of how to deploy the US military in defence of Taiwan is no longer limited to obscure military journals. Even the business press thinks that it’s worth debating, ...

A difficult call

Trouble ahead as Britain bans Huawei from its 5G network
Jul 17, 2020 (WiC 504)

Boris Johnson took an ear-bashing over the phone from Donald Trump earlier this year, following the UK’s decision to grant Huawei a limited role in building its 5G mobile network. And now the British prime minister will be waiting for another ...

Wheels of fortune

After toilet paper and masks, there’s another Covid-19 export boom: bicycles
Jul 10, 2020 (WiC 503)

When he launched his bike hire scheme in 2010, London mayor Boris Johnson noted that a fifth of all journeys in the city had been made by bicycle almost a century earlier. The Conservative politician wanted to see that kind of figure again. “If ...

White House confidential

Bolton’s book reveals Trump called Xi the “greatest Chinese leader in 300 years”
Jul 3, 2020 (WiC 502)

One surprising thing about John Bolton’s new ‘tell-all’ book about the Trump administration (from which he resigned last September) is that the first nine chapters of The Room Where It Happened barely mention China at all. In ...

China’s media mauls Trump over human rights
Jun 5, 2020 (WiC 498)

The US is a hypocrite. That is the message coming out of China’s propaganda machine this week, after the Trump administration vowed to bring nationwide protests over the killing of an unarmed black man to an end – by sending in the military, ...

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