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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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Hitting the bottle

France in the firing line as winemakers are drawn into solar dispute
Jun 14, 2013 (WiC 197)

Who would want to be Karel De Gucht right now, a man under attack from all sides in the row with China on solar panel tariffs?
Certainly few would blame the European Union’s trade commissioner for unwinding after a long day at the office ...

Will Xi trip to Mexico boost drink’s China sales?
Jun 14, 2013 (WiC 197)

Reminiscing to WiC about his time spent in China, an American businessman recalled one incident in the early 1990s. Keen to build better relations with local officials, he decided to try something new. Rather than just host the usual banquet, he ...

State media accuses Americans of dishonesty
Jun 7, 2013 (WiC 196)

"Most people think that Americans are honest, reliable and righteous. But once you live in the country for a while, you may discover the descriptions above are a bit misleading,” the People’s Daily warned its readers earlier this ...

Xi Jinping wants to solve Middle East problem
May 17, 2013 (WiC 193)

Brokering a lasting peace in the Middle East is the holy grail of international diplomacy. Many have tried – but all to no avail. So perhaps it was only a matter of time before the Chinese decided to try their own hand at peacemaking in the ...

France’s cosmetic appeal

The rise of the Chinese consumer could be just the tonic for French firms
May 3, 2013 (WiC 191)

For Charles Gordon – who was later to have his head paraded on a spike around the streets of Khartoum – the looting of the Summer Palace in Beijing by Anglo-French forces in 1860 was disturbingly frenetic. “You can scarcely imagine ...

Pakistan to buy Chinese nuclear reactor
Apr 26, 2013 (WiC 190)

With North Korea’s nuclear machinations dominating the headlines in recent months, it is easy to forget that China has another atomically-ambitious friend on its borders, albeit much further to the west. Pakistan, partly thanks to China’s ...

War by other means

Why a rash of anti-Japanese dramas is a boon for Hengdian
Apr 5, 2013 (WiC 187)

"If you want to learn how the traditional Prussian goose-step works, you have to watch British television, because in Germany nobody knows how to perform it,” Joschka Fischer complained to the BBC when he was German Foreign Minister eight years ...

Beijing frets as Pyongyang blusters
Mar 8, 2013 (WiC 184)

In the 1970s China pioneered ping-pong diplomacy by inviting the American table tennis team to play in Beijing. It was a time when China was sealed off from the rest of the world, so the invite was a major step. Indeed, in a banquet to welcome ...

Beijing furiously denies hacking claims. Is a cyber cold war beginning?
Mar 1, 2013 (WiC 183)

The world’s most famous computer hacker was born either on March 11, 1962 (according to his criminal record), or September 3, 1971 (according to his passport). In spite of the shadowy nature of his occupation, we know a lot about Thomas ...

An intractable problem?

Lessons from a century ago in ongoing Sino-Japanese island dispute
Jan 25, 2013 (WiC 179)

Everything tends towards catastrophe and collapse. I am interested, geared-up and happy.” That may sound like the workings of a deranged mind; in fact they are the words of Winston Churchill, written to his wife on July 28 1914, just days ...

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