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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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Got any plans for August 2?

Even if Washington avoids default, lessons will not be lost on Beijing
Jul 15, 2011 (WiC 115)

When American schoolchildren learn the key dates in their national history, probably the best known is July 4, 1776 – when the 13 colonies declared independence. Less celebrated but also significant was January 8, 1835 – the first and only ...

Ecuador’s finances are in hock to Beijing
Jul 15, 2011 (WiC 115)

Who wants to be a lender of last resort nowadays? Not the Germans, it seems, who are fed up with the continuing requests to bail out their more profligate European neighbours. But over in Ecuador, China seems ready to take on the role, having ...

Time for a change of Korea?

The message from Kim’s visit? Copy our economic reforms says Beijing
Jun 3, 2011 (WiC 109)

"Where can I find oil for a salad?” was the rather mundane enquiry made of supermarket staff in Yangzhou last Monday, according to the Daily Telegraph. Disappointingly, the British newspaper doesn’t reveal if staff responded by gesturing ...

Pakistan is “our Israel”

Why Islamabad has been cosying up to Beijing in recent weeks
Jun 3, 2011 (WiC 109)

"Any attack on Pakistan will be construed as an attack on China,” China’s foreign minister bluntly warned last month. This was shortly after Navy Seals had found and killed Osama bin Laden near a Pakistani army base. Sections of the ...

My enemy’s enemy

Fierce debate among Chinese over Osama’s death
May 6, 2011 (WiC 105)

Few would have predicted that Abbottabad would be become one of the world’s most newsworthy places in 2011. But the announcement that Osama bin Laden was killed in the Pakistani city last Sunday abruptly changed that. When President Obama ...

Avoid plane talking

China is in an ideological bind over Libyan crisis
Mar 25, 2011 (WiC 100)

Jackie Chan rarely has much trouble getting his films shown on Chinese screens. However, his next movie release may face some trickier issues with Beijing’s censors. Chan’s next film is due out in October this year, to coincide with the ...

The day the world shook

Quake sees Chinese respect for Japan rise but faith in nuclear power fall
Mar 18, 2011 (WiC 99)

Earthquakes are powerful events: not only for the damage they wreak to roads and buildings, but also in how they can transform public opinion. Recall in 2008 the negative tone of the Western media as Chinese representatives carried the Olympic ...

Beijing’s bold vote

Why China broke with foreign policy tradition at the UN last weekend
Mar 4, 2011 (WiC 97)

The last time Tobruk and Benghazi hit world headlines was in the 1940s when the Libyan cities repeatedly changed hands in the Desert War. First the Italian army surrendered them to the British. Then they fell to Rommel’s Panzers, before being ...

How Chinese media covered events in Cairo
Feb 18, 2011 (WiC 95)

Amid the chaos in Cairo’s Tahrir Square this month, keen-eyed observers may have spotted a couple of more unusual requests for Mubarak’s resignation – signage written in Chinese. Evidence of the demonstrators’ media savvy, perhaps? If ...

Will Chinese leader’s trip to America reboot the world’s key relationship?
Jan 21, 2011 (WiC 92)

Refer in the same sentence to superpower relations and the pushing of buttons, and the image is likely to be a bleak one – of nuclear brinkmanship. But back in March 2009, Hillary Clinton tried a new approach, presenting Russian Foreign ...

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