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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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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 ...

Beijing’s Solomon Islands deal irks Canberra
Apr 22, 2022 (WiC 581)

In 1942, a few months after Pearl Harbor was bombed, Allied forces launched a major attack against a Japanese base on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Located some 2,000 kilometres off the northeast coast of Queensland, the ...

Border tensions still simmer

Sino-Indian relations show no sign of improvement with Shopee’s exit
Apr 8, 2022 (WiC 580)

Sino-Indian relations remain damaged two years after deadly clashes along a disputed border in the Himalayas. The latest evidence of this comes with the exit of Chinese-backed e-commerce platform Shopee from the Indian market, days after ...

China spars with Australia in Pacific security deals
Apr 8, 2022 (WiC 580)

For the past 20 months Chinese-Australian TV presenter Cheng Lei has been detained in Beijing, accused of revealing state secrets. Cheng, who is 46, was arrested in August 2020 when she was working for a business show on China’s state ...

Lavrov goes to China

ZTE exits five year ‘probation’, but Chinese firms wary as new sanctions bite
Apr 1, 2022 (WiC 579)

News last week that ZTE, the world’s fourth-largest maker of telecommunications equipment, is coming out of a longstanding legal straitjacket imposed by the United States government, soon had its shareholders swooning. The company’s shares ...

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