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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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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 ...

How booming sales to China have raised the stakes in Sino-Australian row
Nov 13, 2020 (WiC 518)

On Thursday last week China’s leader Xi Jinping was in fulsome form at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai. “Our aim is to turn the China market into a market for the world, a market shared by all, and a market accessible to ...

Losing the debate

Chinese media sees Trump-Biden brawl as sign of America’s decline
Oct 2, 2020 (WiC 513)

Until the 1990s observers from the West often mocked China’s so-called ‘old man politics’. That was when the so-called “Eight Immortals” – eight Communist Revolutionaries who took part in the Long March and helped found the People’s ...

Auf wiedersehen, Angela

Slow progress on EU-China investment accord, as Merkel era nears end
Sep 25, 2020 (WiC 512)

Donald Trump’s condemnation of the Chinese government in a speech to the United Nations this week was uncompromising, contrasting with the more subdued scenes at an online summit between China and the European Union a few days earlier. Even ...

Every second counts

TikTok struggles to strike a deal as deadline looms for sale of US business
Sep 4, 2020 (WiC 509)

Bytedance CEO Zhang Yiming has had three separate chances to sell the social media firm that he founded in 2012. He decided to stay put each time, turning down the several chances to become a multi-billionaire overnight. But this time he ...

Shooting the messenger

American firms worry about the impact of a proposed ban on WeChat
Sep 4, 2020 (WiC 509)

Nearly 14,000 executive orders have been issued since George Washington became the first president of the United States. Some of the more controversial ‘instant laws’ – which require no approval from Congress – have included a ban on ...

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