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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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Temple of disquiet

Furore in Nanjing over Japanese war criminals
Jul 29, 2022 (WiC 595)

Buddhist temples across China are doing an emergency inventory of who is listed on their memorial halls or spirit tablets after a shrine in Nanjing was found to contain tablets bearing the names of five Japanese war criminals. The gold plaques ...

The reaction in China to Abe’s death
Jul 15, 2022 (WiC 593)

“One thing did strike my attention that this is the first use of a weapon to murder someone in Japan [this year],” noted Joe Biden in his response to the death of Japan’s former prime minister Abe Shinzo last week (“I think we have 3,000 ...

How the Ukraine crisis and China’s rise are splitting the world into blocs
Jul 8, 2022 (WiC 592)

G20 summits are typically pedestrian affairs, based around photo opportunities and bland closing statements. But this year’s gathering in Indonesia has the potential to be rather more explosive. Few will envy the organisers of the G20 ...

Russia attends an annual summit with China
Jun 24, 2022 (WiC 590)

The ‘BRIC’ concept, an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India and China, was introduced more than two decades ago by former Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill to recognise the role of emerging markets in the global economy. China had just ...

Joe Biden’s trip to East Asia adds to tensions across the region
May 27, 2022 (WiC 586)

Joe Biden blundered this week by calling South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol by his predecessor’s name (Moon Jae-in). Yet by breaking with diplomatic tradition in visiting Seoul before Tokyo during his first trip to Asia as US president, ...

Out of the ashes

New Aussie PM inherits thorny relations with China
May 27, 2022 (WiC 586)

During an interview with CBS News in September last year, Scott Morrison, then Australia’s prime minister, tried to take a softer tone towards China in claiming that he was “always open” to hearing from Beijing. But asked if he had spoken ...

Will the Philippines new leader be pro-China?
May 20, 2022 (WiC 585)

In 1975 the then president of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda travelled to China on a trip that would re-establish formal relations between Manila and Beijing. Also on that visit was the couple’s teenage son Ferdinand ...

Can Beijing win over new South Korean leader?
May 13, 2022 (WiC 584)

It’s not often that top Chinese leaders leave the country these days. President Xi Jinping, for example, hasn’t left China since he visited Myanmar in January 2020, a few days before the first Covid lockdown in Wuhan was ...

Tough balancing act as Biden mulls new China strategy
May 13, 2022 (WiC 584)

Four years after Donald Trump started to slap tariffs on billions of dollars of Chinese imports, could Joe Biden be about to call a trade truce with Beijing? On Tuesday the US president said that his administration could drop some of the ...

A freeze in Delhi

Xiaomi embroiled in worsening Sino-Indian ties
May 6, 2022 (WiC 583)

How do multinational companies reduce their tax burdens? A popular option where there is an operating subsidiary in a country with high taxes is to have that unit reduce its profits by paying royalties or licence fees to an associated ...

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