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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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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, ...

Growing tensions on China’s border with India
Jun 5, 2020 (WiC 498)

High-altitude skirmishes on disputed sections of the Sino-Indian border can look a little low-tech. A bilateral code discourages the use of firearms. But that doesn’t stop soldiers from using sticks, stones and sometimes their fists when they ...

Washington review confirms ‘great power’ clash
May 29, 2020 (WiC 497)

Donald Trump is so active on Twitter that it sometimes seems he is setting American policy on the fly, including the outlines of the crucially important relationship (or non-relationship) with China. While it is true that his tweets reveal his ...

A bitter harvest

Beijing slaps tariffs on Australia barley, after row over Covid-19 inquiry
May 22, 2020 (WiC 496)

Was it really a coincidence? That was the question about the timing of China’s Monday announcement that it was slapping tariffs on Australian barley exports, which were worth about $600 million last year. Only a few hours later a meeting of the ...

Pandemic politics

Is Covid-19 pushing China and the US into a new Cold War?
May 15, 2020 (WiC 495)

The term ‘Cold War’ was actually coined by a Wall Street financier. Bernard Baruch – then an advisor to President Harry Truman – came up with it in April 1947 to describe the increasingly chilly relations between the US and the Soviet ...

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