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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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Rare opportunity

Is a ban on rare earth exports really a bargaining chip in the trade war?
Jun 7, 2019 (WiC 455)

The Sino-US trade conflict was predicted in 2011 by a somewhat unlikely source: Michael Scott of Dunder Mifflin. The protagonist of the American version of The Office begins an episode titled ‘China’ by picking up objects and ...

Return to sender

China plans blacklist as US trade tension escalates – will FedEx be on it?
Jun 7, 2019 (WiC 455)

Two weeks after the Trump administration put Huawei on an export blacklist, the Chinese have struck back by announcing a hit-list is being compiled of “unreliable entities”. The authorities haven’t finalised which companies might ...

The heart of the matter

SMIC’s delisting in New York is yet another milestone in the Sino-US tech war
May 31, 2019 (WiC 454)

The Chinese name of SMIC is Zhongxin Guoji. The first two Chinese characters are a pun on ‘China’s heart’ while the latter two mean ‘international”. The name sums up the patriotic mission that the state-backed foundry has struggled with ...

Phoney war hots up

America launches a full-frontal assault on China’s tech champion Huawei
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

One of the most potent symbols of President Richard Nixon’s groundbreaking trip to China in 1972 was Beijing’s gift to Washington of two pandas: Ling Ling and Hsing Hsing. The bears’ arrival on US territory marked a new diplomatic era in ...

A dangerous path

More attacks on CPEC projects in Pakistan
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

Sometime later this year or early next, cinema audiences in China and Pakistan will get to see The Journey – a feature-length drama about an engineer’s dreams of upgrading the Karakorum Highway, one of the world’s highest-altitude ...

The China-US trade row got a lot messier over the past week
May 17, 2019 (WiC 452)

The toughest ‘trade talks’ Beijing had previously held with Washington involved China’s accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The negotiations dragged on for 15 years. That was long enough to “turn black hair white” as former ...

The varsity blues

Chinese pharma tycoon spends $6.5 million to get daughter into top college
May 10, 2019 (WiC 451)

The achievements of Mencius, the second most revered of China’s sages after Confucius, are often traced back to his solicitous mother. Legend has it that widow Zhang moved house three times – from close to a cemetery to a marketplace and ...

A humiliation remembered

Message of the May 4th centenary: China won’t give an inch on sovereignty
May 3, 2019 (WiC 450)

Most people outside China will be unaware of it, but the hundredth anniversary of the May Fourth Movement is a significant moment for the Chinese. It marks the day on May 4th, 1919 that students took to the streets in Beijing to express their ...

Classroom tests

Chinese students finding it harder to get US visas
Apr 12, 2019 (WiC 448)

Until recently Wang Da was a PhD student at the University of Texas at Dallas. But he hasn’t been able to get a visa to return to the US since a trip back to China earlier this year. Wang is one of about a hundred graduate students currently ...

Chinese-designed plane shoots down Indian jet
Mar 8, 2019 (WiC 443)

Did Pakistan use a Chinese-designed fighter jet to down an Indian MiG over Kashmir last month? That seems likely if, as Islamabad says, its air force wasn’t flying an American-made F-16. The question is important because deployment of an ...

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