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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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Bordering on hysteria

Territorial disputes underline the fragility of Sino-Indian relations
Oct 23, 2009 (WiC 35)

China and India are brothers,” declared Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, in the 1950s. But there’s growing fear in India of Chinese hegemony. As a border dispute heated up again last week, it provoked an impassioned public ...

It’s only natural

It’s gas, not Marx, shaping Sino-Russian relations
Oct 23, 2009 (WiC 35)

Sino-Russian relations have had their ups and downs. One Beijing academic traces the beginnings of China’s ‘era of humiliations’ to the Treaty of Nerchinsk, signed with Russia in 1689. Relations improved in 1950, when Mao Zedong signed a ...

Brought to you by Toshiba

National Day ad enrages netizens but Sino-Japanese ties look brighter
Oct 12, 2009 (WiC 34)

China’s internet community is particularly peeved by last week’s ‘Toshiba’ incident. The problem was that the Japanese firm’s billboard was clearly visible during last Thursday’s live broadcast of the National Day Parade. It even ...

Raining on the parade

Foreign and Chinese media offer widely differing views on the National Day Parade, its organisation and its significance.
Oct 2, 2009 (WiC 33)

A well-prepared event? The Chinese media evidently thought so. The two and a half hour parade went off without a hitch. About 108,000 people marched past Tiananmen Gate saluting the country’s leaders. The event also featured ...

Speaking the same language

English set to be replaced as Singapore’s first language – by Mandarin
Sep 25, 2009 (WiC 32)

When Deng Xiaoping travelled to southern China in 1992 to campaign for faster economic liberalisation, he seems to have liked what he saw: “Singapore’s social order is rather good. Its leaders exercise strict management. We should learn from ...

The elephant and the dragon

Will spat over telecoms equipment disconnect Sino-Indian relationship?
Sep 11, 2009 (WiC 30)

When Mao took power in 1949, he presided over a nation with a GDP per head 40% lower than India’s. By 2008 – Beijing’s Olympic year – that situation had been comprehensively reversed. China’s GDP per head is now more than triple that ...

Better relations in store?

Japan now welcomes Chinese tourists – especially if they have big wallets
Sep 4, 2009 (WiC 29)

At Mitsukoshi, one of Tokyo’s fanciest department stores, the shopping habits of China’s nouveau riche have been impressing even the most experienced sales managers. According to Shoji Saito, manager of Mitsukoshi’s overseas-related ...

Diplomatic digs

Trade and tantrums: Beijing’s relations with Australia sour
Aug 28, 2009 (WiC 28)

It seems to be a case of very mixed signals. On the one hand, politicians from Australia’s opposition parties are lamenting what they say is the lowest ebb in Sino-Australian relations for years. Punchy editorials in the Chinese press, which ...

A climate change indeed

The Chinese sent a large delegation to Washington this week for the Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26)

So why is the dialogue so "strategic"? Because it is widening the terms of debate between the two countries, says Dan Baxter in the China Daily. Now it is about more than just economic issues. The question is whether ...

Visiting the bank manager

Tim Geithner was in Beijing at the beginning of the week on a mission to reassure.
Jun 5, 2009 (WiC 18)

So into the lion's den... The Beijing-based Global Times was waiting with a survey of 23 Chinese economists, 17 of which deemed it “risky” to be holding US bonds. On the other hand, at least a majority of the survey was ...

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