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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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The view from Tokyo

What the Japanese press are saying about nation’s dispute with China
Sep 28, 2012 (WiC 166)

In 1982, the UK fought a war over the Falkland Islands. Until their seizure by Argentina, the islands were little known in Britain. But their loss touched a nationalist nerve and an erstwhile unthinkable war was launched to recapture them. In a ...

Who will blink first?

Why Sino-Japanese relations are at their lowest point since 1945
Sep 21, 2012 (WiC 165)

Thucydides wrote that the “great sources of war” are money, fear and honour. At the time he was seeking to explain the rivalry between Athens and Sparta and the origins of the mutually destructive Peleponnesian War. The ancient Greek ...

Don’t have a cow

Dairy land is off-limits but New Zealand’s fine with selling Fisher & Paykel
Sep 21, 2012 (WiC 165)

There aren’t many white goods companies capable of evoking a serious dose of nostalgia. But Liam Dann, business editor at the New Zealand Herald, professes an emotional reaction when it comes to memories of the washing machines made by Fisher ...

A costly acquisition

Japan’s island “purchase” leads to Hu and Noda rowing in corridor
Sep 14, 2012 (WiC 164)

When a Chinese leader meets a foreign dignitary, it’s usually a fairly stage-managed affair. You know the drill: the obligatory photos in the Great Hall of the People (with guest usually shown in inferior posture to host); then the stilted ...

Mining boss says North Koreans don’t play fair
Aug 31, 2012 (WiC 162)

The expectation of bribes, having to foot the bill for interminable banquets with officials, worthless contracts and – ultimately – the expropriation of your assets by your local partners. For most, the list would be more than enough to ...

Tensions with Japan escalate over disputed isles
Aug 24, 2012 (WiC 161)

Wars can start over the smallest of provocations. The severed ear of Robert Jenkins prompted nine years of Anglo-Spanish hostilities in the mid-18th century, for instance, while El Salvador squared up to Honduras in a four-day conflict in 1969 ...

Fancy footwork in Africa

A Chinese entrepreneur spends billions on an Ethiopian shoe factory
Jul 27, 2012 (WiC 160)

When Chinese admiral Zheng He’s fleet of ships arrived at the east coast of Africa in the early 15th century, he presented gifts of gold, silver, porcelain and silk. There were more gifts on offer last week as Africa’s leaders journeyed to ...

China’s newest city is in Africa

Controversy dogs a Chinese-built city in Angola
Jul 27, 2012 (WiC 160)

A “ghost town” is the Daily Mail’s verdict on Nova Cidade de Kilamba. The UK newspaper has been showing video footage on its website of one of its journalists driving around this deserted Angolan city of 750 eight-storey blocks of ...

Rocky relations

Maritime tensions fester with Japan and China’s other neighbours
Jul 20, 2012 (WiC 159)

"As was usually the case with these China ‘incidents’ the rights and wrongs of the affair had been thickly cloaked in ambiguity.” So notes JG Farrell in his novel, The Singapore Grip. The ‘incident’ the author is referring ...

Best friends forever

Brazil and China announce a slew of new trade and finance deals
Jun 29, 2012 (WiC 156)

Remember the vuvuzela? Few will forget the ear-piercing sound of that Chinese-made plastic trumpet, which fans blew at the soccer World Cup in South Africa two years ago. What might China’s manufacturers be dreaming up for the next World Cup ...

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