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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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Hungarian dance

CATL unveils electric battery factory in Debrecen
Aug 26, 2022 (WiC 597)

At first glance Debrecen in eastern Hungary is a quiet town with a pretty central square, seemingly untroubled by geopolitical vicissitudes. Yet through the centuries this once-Catholic, once-Protestant city has seen it all – from the fall of ...

Beijing’s new Donald debate

How did Chinese react to the dramatic raid on Trump’s home?
Aug 19, 2022 (WiC 596)

One of the most feared punishments in imperial China was called chaojia, a term for ransacking a house and confiscating all of the possessions within. Action like this was sometimes taken against senior officials that had fallen from ...

Temple of disquiet

Furore in Nanjing over Japanese war criminals
Jul 29, 2022 (WiC 595)

Buddhist temples across China are doing an emergency inventory of who is listed on their memorial halls or spirit tablets after a shrine in Nanjing was found to contain tablets bearing the names of five Japanese war criminals. The gold plaques ...

The reaction in China to Abe’s death
Jul 15, 2022 (WiC 593)

“One thing did strike my attention that this is the first use of a weapon to murder someone in Japan [this year],” noted Joe Biden in his response to the death of Japan’s former prime minister Abe Shinzo last week (“I think we have 3,000 ...

How the Ukraine crisis and China’s rise are splitting the world into blocs
Jul 8, 2022 (WiC 592)

G20 summits are typically pedestrian affairs, based around photo opportunities and bland closing statements. But this year’s gathering in Indonesia has the potential to be rather more explosive. Few will envy the organisers of the G20 ...

Russia attends an annual summit with China
Jun 24, 2022 (WiC 590)

The ‘BRIC’ concept, an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India and China, was introduced more than two decades ago by former Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill to recognise the role of emerging markets in the global economy. China had just ...

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 ...

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