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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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The Italian job

Tuscan city worries about Chinese invasion
Sep 24, 2010 (WiC 79)

"They’re not like other immigrants, who can be pretty thick,” Ricardo Marini told the New York Times. “The Chinese are very clever.” In fact, Marini and his fellow Italians are worried about just how clever the Chinese can be. Marini ...

Sino-Japanese dispute worsens
Sep 24, 2010 (WiC 79)

The dispute between China and Japan – as reported in last week’s Talking Point – continues to worsen. The detention of a Chinese trawler captain by the Japanese has flared up into a stand-off over the sovereignty of eight islands the ...

Gunship diplomacy?

Tensions between China and Japan are escalating in dispute over islands
Sep 17, 2010 (WiC 78)

History teaches us that conflicts can grow out of the most obscure dispute. Take the case of Don Pacifico, whose house was ransacked by a Greek mob as police looked on. When he failed to get compensation from the Athens authorities, he appealed ...

Red, not yellow, submarine

High-tech sub could unsettle the neighbours
Sep 3, 2010 (WiC 76)

The tradition of claiming territory by being the first to plant a flag on it has a long and dubious history. But the practice has not died out. A Chinese submarine raised the banner of the People’s Republic on the floor of the fiercely ...

Hu meets ‘African Hitler’

Controversial leader announces yuan could become Zimbabwe’s currency
Aug 27, 2010 (WiC 75)

China’s ties with Africa have been on the rise in recent years, andhistorians are now trying to confirm just how far back trade between the two really goes. According to the Kenyan Standard, archaeologists in the coastal town of Malindi have ...

A spicy relationship

Why India’s intelligentsia and politicians are starting to see China as more of a threat than an opportunity
Aug 5, 2010 (WiC 72)

When the Indian environment minister visited Beijing recently, an unwise gaffe very nearly cost him his job. Venturing off topic, he told an audience of journalists that when it came to China, India was “imagining demons where there are ...

Will China visa issue sour relations with UK?
Jul 23, 2010 (WiC 70)

The latest Chinese investment in London isn’t being made by a Chinese, but a Russian. A new chain of restaurants – serving healthy, quick-to-prepare Chinese street food – has been launched by entrepreneur, Igor Sagiryan, reports The Times. ...

Reds under the bed

Congress remains wary of Chinese acquisitions in the US
Jul 16, 2010 (WiC 69)

Prior to this year Amory, Mississippi was best known for a song: Carl Perkins wrote Blue Suede Shoes there in 1955, during a concert trip with Elvis and Johnny Cash. Fast-forward 50 years or so and Suspicious Minds looks like ...

Beijing woos, the Arab world reciprocates
Jun 11, 2010 (WiC 64)

We’ve been covering the national pavilions at the Shanghai Expo in recent weeks. And currently nothing demonstrates as much commitment – to Shanghai and China as a whole – as forking out $200 million on your Expo tent. So Saudi Arabia ...

Chinese navy sets course for open sea
May 28, 2010 (WiC 62)

The fallout this week over the alleged North Korean torpedoing of the Cheonan, a South Korean warship, reminds us that confrontations at sea are not necessarily a thing of the past. In the Korean case, China is being urged to do more to ...

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