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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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South Korean cartoon banned because of maps
Apr 1, 2021 (WiC 534)

The main character in the South Korean anime series Super Wings is a plucky red and white plane called Jett who delivers parcels to children around the world. He is unfailingly cheerful but often a little inept. For Chinese viewers ...

The freeze, then the fury

More trouble ahead as Beijing bristles at Xinjiang sanctions campaign
Mar 26, 2021 (WiC 533)

The external temperatures were subzero at a much-heralded meeting of China’s and America’s top diplomats in Alaska last week. And the mood inside showed little sign of warming up as both sides diverged from prepared remarks to take verbal pot ...

The Blinken doctrine

Why Sino-US relations could be defined by their growing rivalry in AI
Mar 12, 2021 (WiC 531)

After years of bitter exchanges between Washington and Beijing – sparked by a trade and tech war during the Trump administration – Joe Biden’s incoming presidency offers both governments a chance to find some middle ground. Some ...

Symbolic gesture

Japanese anime returns to CCTV after 14 years
Mar 12, 2021 (WiC 531)

The Japanese anime series Cells at Work is, quite literally, about a battle in the human body. In it, anthropomorphised immune cells – the heroes – do battle with invading bacteria and viruses. The two central characters are a ditzy ...

Tit-for-tat bans on CGTN and BBC as Sino-UK relations worsen
Feb 19, 2021 (WiC 529)

China Global Television News or, CGTN, began broadcasting in the UK in 2002 under the name CCTV-9. In its application for a British licence the Chinese channel claimed to be an editorially-independent state broadcaster, similar to the BBC or the ...

Exit the disrupter-in-chief

As Trump’s presidency ends, his impact on Sino-US relations will be lasting
Jan 22, 2021 (WiC 525)

Losing contestants on The Apprentice, the reality series that helped to catapult Donald Trump into the race for the White House, were booted off the show straight after being fired. As outgoing president, Trump has lingered longer, ...

Barack on Beijing

Obama’s new book reveals his interactions with China’s senior leaders
Dec 11, 2020 (WiC 522)

Barack Obama’s memoir A Promised Land begins with his early political career and ends with a Navy SEAL team killing Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. The 700-page account thus represents the first volume of his presidential autobiography. But it ...

Afghan conflict

Sino-Australian rift continues to widen
Dec 4, 2020 (WiC 521)

A month ago we noted how Joe Biden’s presidential win presented a chance to slow the souring of relations between China and Australia. The idea was that Biden’s arrival might allow for a reset of Washington’s acrimonious relationship with ...

Trading up together

How significant is Asia’s new trade deal, the RCEP?
Nov 20, 2020 (WiC 519)

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, has been billed this week as the world’s biggest ever trade deal. Signed last Sunday between 15 nations in the Asia-Pacific, it needs ratification at national level before coming into ...

Joe’s China choices

Biden has known Xi a long time – what will that mean for Sino-US relations?
Nov 13, 2020 (WiC 518)

When Joe Biden visited Beijing in August 2011 in his role as American vice-president he was greeted at the Great Hall of the People by a certain Xi Jinping, China’s leader-in-waiting. The backdrop to the meeting was an unprecedented decision ...

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