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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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A command performance

Beijing ramps up its relief effort overseas as the pandemic spreads
Mar 27, 2020 (WiC 488)

The Covid-19 pandemic is accelerating, the World Health Organisation warned this week. And so are deliveries from China of much-needed supplies to countries fighting the outbreak, with a blizzard of announcements in the press. Chinese diplomats ...

From rags to riches

Bangladesh’s garment trade draws inspiration from the China model
Feb 28, 2020 (WiC 484)

Books have been predicting the collapse of China for decades but it’s the Chinese supply chain that is now supposed to be on the brink of disaster, after being torpedoed by the trade war and quarantined by the coronavirus. Some of that view ...

Sympathy deficit

Rather than finding common cause in virus crisis, Sino-US relations worsen
Feb 21, 2020 (WiC 483)

Swooping in on a castle’s weak point, robbing the victim of a fire, throwing stones at someone drowning in a well – a range of Chinese proverbs have been coined to make the same point: not to kick a person who is already down. These ...

Contagion coverage unearths old European stereotypes
Feb 14, 2020 (WiC 482)

They have yet to cause complete panic but the newspaper headlines that are following the coronavirus from one country to the next have stoked plenty of fear. And in Europe, one of those headlines also shone a light on a dark period of history ...

An unforeseen outcome from the Wuhan virus: better relations with Japan
Feb 14, 2020 (WiC 482)

With deaths from the coronavirus approaching 1,500, any talk of silver linings from the crisis would be inappropriate. But one of the unexpected outcomes from events is a thawing of relations between longtime antagonists China and ...

Boris breaks ranks on 5G

How Huawei has strained the UK’s ‘special relationship’ with the US
Jan 31, 2020 (WiC 481)

Boris Johnson, who read Classics at university, seems more comfortable looking back to the ancient world than peering ahead to the technologies of the future. During his stint as London’s mayor he talked up the British capital as a tech hub. ...

The war on weibo

Iranian diplomats clash with their US counterparts, as netizens watch
Jan 17, 2020 (WiC 479)

Some of China’s historians regard the 1904 Russo-Japanese War as one of the greatest insults to China’s territorial integrity. Despite knowing that the combatants were encroaching into territory in China’s northeast, the Qing government ...

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 ...

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