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China and the World

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Could China target Apple as a bargaining chip in the worsening trade war?
Aug 17, 2018 (WiC 420)

In 1893 an English engineer was carrying out a survey to build one of China’s earliest railways when he came across a fishing village called Beidaihe. Claude William Kinder immediately concluded it would make a great seaside resort. Thanks ...

How history matters for Beijing’s worldview
Aug 17, 2018 (WiC 420)

We can only make sense of the present by understanding the past. It is hardly an original idea but Robert Bickers’ Out of China explains its particular relevance in understanding today’s China. Historical consciousness has always ...

Germany pushes back on Chinese investment
Aug 17, 2018 (WiC 420)

Angela Merkel may choose her words a lot more carefully than Donald Trump but she has sent a similarly cautious message on the desirability of Chinese investment – after blocking two bids for German companies from Chinese suitors. At the end ...

Beijing in charm offensive as China looks for allies in Europe
Jul 20, 2018 (WiC 418)

Winston Churchill once likened American diplomacy to “a bull who carries his own china shop around with him” and the description had never sounded more fitting than during Donald Trump’s disruptive tour of Europe last week. The American ...

A misstep in Malaysia for China’s Belt and Road Initiative?
Jul 13, 2018 (WiC 417)

The inaugural Belt and Road Forum held in May last year was the coming-out party of Xi Jinping’s signature policy. With 29 foreign leaders attending the Beijing event, Xinhua described the gathering – rather exotically – as a “fruit ...

The China-US trade war has worsened in recent days
Jul 13, 2018 (WiC 417)

Trade wars are good and easy to win” was the breezy claim from Donald Trump back in March. His dictum is soon to be tested, after he pushed the button on tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese goods last Friday, with commitments to add duties on $16 ...

China’s fishing fleet targets long-distance catch
Jul 6, 2018 (WiC 416)

By 2020 China’s homegrown satellite navigation system Beidou should cover the globe. That’s good news for the country’s fishermen, who are venturing further from home after depleting many of their own reserves. China is the world’s ...

New book says Republicans key to China’s rise
Jun 22, 2018 (WiC 414)

As Donald Trump talks up tariffs aimed at reducing his country’s trade deficit with the Chinese, a new book tells the story of how Trump’s political party – the Republicans – have engaged with China over the last 250 years and aided its ...

A wild week in Sino-US relations as trade tensions spill over
Jun 22, 2018 (WiC 414)

Donald Trump doesn’t like the media much and the Chinese newspapers returned the sentiment in spades last weekend after news that he would levy tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese goods. The People’s Daily led the attack, blasting his ...

But is China the biggest winner of the Trump-Kim summit?
Jun 15, 2018 (WiC 413)

He can allegedly launch a nuclear missile at a Californian city, but when it comes to getting to Singapore he has to borrow a jumbo jet from China. It is one of the many paradoxes of the Kim Jong-un regime. The footage of his arrival at Changi ...

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