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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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Das ist nicht gut

German press turns negative on China’s rise
Feb 2, 2018 (WiC 396)

In the German imagination, an alptraum (the word for ‘nightmare’) involves a mythical creature called the Alp. Some folklore has it that the Alp terrifies sleepers by sitting on their chests, and as they wake they have a ...

Washington’s new consensus

Huawei’s ambitions face fresh setback as US politics unravels AT&T deal
Jan 19, 2018 (WiC 394)

On January 9, 2007, more than 140,000 techies swarmed to Vegas for the annual CES show. They were lining up for what was billed as the world’s largest and glitziest consumer electronics exhibition. But Steve Jobs stole the thunder 400 miles ...

A crisis waiting to happen?

Author discusses the potential trouble ahead for Sino-Japanese relations
Jan 12, 2018 (WiC 393)

From the earliest editions of WiC (see issue 14) we have argued that one of the most volatile and potentially dangerous relationships the world faces is between a rising China and a nervy Japan that feels threatened by this geopolitical shift. ...

2018: year of the backlash?

From Australia to America, nations are pushing back against China’s rise
Jan 5, 2018 (WiC 392)

China’s first bullet trains left Beijing for Tianjin in December 2007 and most domestic media at the time focused on its role serving the capital’s 2008 Olympiad. But it was actually the start of something more profoundly far-reaching. This ...

Meet the MBA chef

DaDong’s Peking duck woos New York but its state-owned rival struggles
Jan 5, 2018 (WiC 392)

Along with sweet and sour pork, roast Peking duck is one of the most well known of Chinese foods among foreign diners. Less known: more than 70% of the poultry used for the famous dish are Cherry Valley ducks bred by a British firm with the same ...

EU accuses China of dumping e-bikes
Dec 8, 2017 (WiC 391)

Plenty of Chinese cities have banned electric bicycles. Unlicenced and often driven on pavements instead of roads, the silent speedsters have been described as a dangerous scourge. And now the European Union is also saying that China’s ...

In the thick of it

Trouble in New York over alleged bribery in the African oil sector
Dec 1, 2017 (WiC 390)

Known as an action star, Sibelle Hu featured in Hong Kong’s kung fu movies of the 1980s. In 1997 she took on a more challenging role in a film about a CIA plot to assassinate Mao Zedong during his 1949 visit to Moscow (in The Rising Sun and the ...

He came, he dealt, he tweeted

Lavish welcome for US president – as $253 billion of deals get announced
Nov 10, 2017 (WiC 387)

Li Zhaoxing, China’s foreign minister from 2003 to 2007, has personally encountered six presidents of the US. According to the veteran diplomat, the Sino-US relationship always oscillates between cooperation and competition and the mood often ...

Passage to India

An account of China and India’s intertwined history
Nov 3, 2017 (WiC 386)

“Those who come between or dare/ Tamper with us. We reply: Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai.” This verse of solidarity (bhai-bhai means ‘brother-brother) was part of a poem composed by Harindranath Chattopadhyaya to celebrate the 1954 Panchasheel ...

Lion State leader travels to Beijing to rebuild relations after rift
Sep 29, 2017 (WiC 382)

It wasn’t that long ago that China, home to 1.38 billion people, was open in its admiration for tiny Singapore – a standout example of a country that had achieved advanced economic status under the long-term rule of a single political ...

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