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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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Border town pioneers use of Russian currency
Jan 10, 2014 (WiC 221)

"The United States is not a parasite on the world economy”, Russian president Vladimir Putin told Chinese media two years ago. “But the US dollar’s monopoly is a parasite,” he insisted, according to reports in Xinhua. Graciously Putin ...

Cameron seeks to charm

British leader pulls out all the stops to boost China relations during trip
Dec 6, 2013 (WiC 219)

He would bend on a single knee to his sovereign but on both knees only to his God. This was Lord Macartney’s retort when told he must put his forehead to the floor in the presence of Emperor Qianlong on arriving at the Chinese court in ...

Airing old grievances

Beijing’s new defence zone leads Washington to send in the bombers
Nov 29, 2013 (WiC 218)

The people of Japan awoke last week to the news that they had a new island. The result of volcanic activity, it had arisen from the ocean 970 kilometres south of Tokyo, appearing off the coast of Nishinoshima. The islet – which is only ...

Beijing floored by US ceiling

Xi steals limelight at APEC but China frets about its dollar debt holdings
Oct 18, 2013 (WiC 212)

Photo calls at APEC conferences usually rouse the mildest of attention and normally that’s only thanks to amusement at the garish shirts that some of the leaders look to be wearing under sufferance (something that we remarked upon in WiC44). ...

Palatial investments

Flurry of UK deals announced, including a plan to rebuild Crystal Palace
Oct 18, 2013 (WiC 212)

The National Museum in Beijing unveiled a new exhibition recently of the gifts received over the years by the Chinese government from foreign heads of state and dignataries. It’s a fascinating assemblage, dating back to presents given to Mao ...

Beijing sizes up Abbott

Will Australia’s new leader be less friendly to Chinese business interests?
Sep 20, 2013 (WiC 209)

Politicians have often been keen to take the plunge to get a bit of publicity. Mao Zedong was reported to have swum so rapidly down the Yangtze in 1966 that he started getting invitations to compete at international swim meets (see WiC116). Beppe ...

Japan’s election result provokes China concerns
Jul 26, 2013 (WiC 203)

Fans of author George RR Martin will be familiar with the phrase “winter is coming”. In his bestselling novels – now shown in the TV series Game of Thrones – it’s the rather gloomy motto of the combative Stark family. The words ...

Pipeline delay may signal tensions with Burma
Jun 28, 2013 (WiC 199)

Even some of the most difficult projects undertaken by China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) have been delivered on schedule. In the toughest of circumstances, such as in war-ravaged Iraq or Afghanistan, the company has usually finished on ...

Catch me if you can

Has US lost the moral high ground in cyber spying row with China?
Jun 21, 2013 (WiC 198)

It was described by Thomas Jefferson as being “one of the most flagitious of which history will ever furnish an example”. For those without a dictionary handy (WiC had to look it up, we admit) flagitious means criminal or villainous. ...

Stamp of approval

Why Panama got a canal and Nicaragua didn’t
Jun 21, 2013 (WiC 198)

At the turn of the last century the United States’ government was looking closely at Central America for a way to link the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Its Canal Commission seemed to be leaning towards a longer route through Nicaragua after the ...

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