China and the World « Week In China - Part 3

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China and the World

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Jack Ma tours Israel and Jordan with a retinue of 35 senior executives
May 25, 2018 (WiC 410)

Chinese internet giant Alibaba’s executive chairman Jack Ma once liked to call himself CEO, by which he meant “chief education officer”. Such a role, he explained, required him to pass on his thinking and experience. Since stepping down ...

Bankers from Saudi Arabia, Singapore and UK discuss China trade flows
May 4, 2018 (WiC 407)

Trade friction between China and the United States has been a feature of the first four months of the year, with the threat of billions of dollars of tariffs hanging heavily in the air. As tensions mounted further this week Donald Trump sent ...

Will sanctions on ZTE (and possibly Huawei) trigger a US-China tech war?
Apr 27, 2018 (WiC 406)

Chen Jin made a name for himself 15 years ago with the invention of the Hanxin computer chip, which means “the heart of Han [Chinese]”. The domestic media was ecstatic about his homegrown processor, predicting that it would allow every ...

China is driving an Asian arms race, writes Asian Affairs magazine’s Editor
Apr 13, 2018 (WiC 404)

The soldiers who battle China’s enemies in the hit film Operation Red Sea are presented as fine examples of the bravest men in the People’s Liberation Army. When the flag is raised during one epic fight, it stirs such pride among audiences ...

Xi Jinping’s speech in Boao takes a more conciliatory tone
Apr 13, 2018 (WiC 404)

On December 16, 1978 China signed a joint communiqué with the United States on establishing diplomatic relations. Just two days later the Communist Party held an all-important Third Plenum of its 11th National Party Congress to adopt economic ...

Say what you like about him but Kim Jong-un certainly has his mercurial moments
Apr 6, 2018 (WiC 403)

Such is his distrust of all things South Korean that even its pop music – or K-pop in everyday parlance – is forbidden. Kim Jong-un’s subjects risk imprisonment if they are caught playing it and Seoul has made a point of blasting K-pop ...

Trump hits China with new, more punitive tariffs
Mar 23, 2018 (WiC 402)

This is the first of many” was the promise from Donald Trump on Thursday as he signed an executive order that could slap 25% tariffs on up to $60 billion of Chinese imports. The order follows an investigation from the US Trade ...

How fears about Huawei scuppered Broadcom’s bid for Qualcomm
Mar 16, 2018 (WiC 401)

In the struggle to establish global standards for new technologies the Chinese and the Americans are often on opposing sides. Things were different in the late 1990s when Qualcomm’s founder Irwin Jacobs was trying to commercialise CDMA, a ...

Former president predicts trouble in the Maldives
Mar 2, 2018 (WiC 399)

The prognosis for the Maldives over the next few decades isn’t terrific. If global warming doesn’t see its low-lying archipelago submerged by rising seas, China may end up controlling much of its landmass due to its government’s inability ...

Spring Gala skit stirs criticism in Africa
Mar 2, 2018 (WiC 399)

Thus far 2018 hasn’t been great for Sino-African relations. In late January, the French newspaper Le Monde reported that Chinese officials had been stealing information from the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa. Beijing paid for the ...

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