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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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Beijing’s Solomon Islands deal irks Canberra
Apr 22, 2022 (WiC 581)

In 1942, a few months after Pearl Harbor was bombed, Allied forces launched a major attack against a Japanese base on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Located some 2,000 kilometres off the northeast coast of Queensland, the ...

Border tensions still simmer

Sino-Indian relations show no sign of improvement with Shopee’s exit
Apr 8, 2022 (WiC 580)

Sino-Indian relations remain damaged two years after deadly clashes along a disputed border in the Himalayas. The latest evidence of this comes with the exit of Chinese-backed e-commerce platform Shopee from the Indian market, days after ...

China spars with Australia in Pacific security deals
Apr 8, 2022 (WiC 580)

For the past 20 months Chinese-Australian TV presenter Cheng Lei has been detained in Beijing, accused of revealing state secrets. Cheng, who is 46, was arrested in August 2020 when she was working for a business show on China’s state ...

Lavrov goes to China

ZTE exits five year ‘probation’, but Chinese firms wary as new sanctions bite
Apr 1, 2022 (WiC 579)

News last week that ZTE, the world’s fourth-largest maker of telecommunications equipment, is coming out of a longstanding legal straitjacket imposed by the United States government, soon had its shareholders swooning. The company’s shares ...

Rocky relationship

US claims China is militarising artificial islands
Mar 25, 2022 (WiC 578)

Joe Biden warned Xi Jinping not to provide “material support” to Moscow during a phone call last week, as Sino-US ties continue to be strained by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Chinese readout of the call between the two leaders was ...

An uncomfortable position

What does the European media think of China’s Ukraine stance?
Mar 11, 2022 (WiC 576)

One of the most closely watched press conferences this week was not in Moscow or Kyiv but in Beijing on Monday when Foreign Minister Wang Yi outlined China’s response to the crisis in Ukraine and his wider views on international ...

Playing roulette

Chinese firms mull the risks of dealing with Russia
Mar 11, 2022 (WiC 576)

On February 21, three days before Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine, the Chinese ride-hailing app Didi announced its departure from Russia. The move was born of financial necessity – the company has been haemorrhaging money at home and ...

Beijing’s Kyiv conundrum

Assessing China’s reaction to Russia’s Ukraine invasion
Mar 4, 2022 (WiC 575)

The Chinese word for Ukraine is Wukelan (乌克兰). The word itself is a broadly phonetic representation of the country’s name but each of the three Chinese characters has a meaning in its own right. The middle character ke (克) translates as ...

Triangular thinking

Fifty years after Nixon met Mao, are there lessons for today’s leaders?
Feb 18, 2022 (WiC 573)

On February 17, 1972 President Richard Nixon departed Washington for a seminal journey to China in which he met Mao Zedong. As he told journalists prior to his departure: “A trip to China is like going to the Moon”. That pretty much summed up ...

Island diplomacy

China backs Argentina’s Falklands claim
Feb 18, 2022 (WiC 573)

Argentinian leader Alberto Fernandez wouldn’t have been counting on Olympic glory when he flew into Beijing earlier this month – his nation’s athletes have competed at 19 Winter Olympic Games without winning a single medal. But President ...

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