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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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Ich bin ein Beijinger

German GDP growth is becoming increasingly dependent on China
Feb 10, 2012 (WiC 137)

Kudos where it’s due. WiC sometimes chuckles at the heavy-handedness of the editorial opinion in the Global Times, a spiky observer at the best of times. Relations between China and the wider world often come in for some of the most voluble ...

Kidnapped Chinese workers released in Sudan
Feb 10, 2012 (WiC 137)

Only the most adventurous would see a posting to South Kordofan as an attractive opportunity. Located along Sudan’s border with its new neighbour South Sudan, the region has been the scene of ongoing fighting with southern rebels in a conflict ...

Straitened circumstances

As pressure on Iran mounts, China looks to diversify its oil supply
Jan 13, 2012 (WiC 134)

Threats by the Iranian government to block the Strait of Hormuz have taken the war of words between Tehran and Western leaders to a new level. Some are confident that it is a case of Iranian bluster. “Do I really think that they’re going ...

All in the line of duties

This weekend marks China’s tenth anniversary as a WTO member
Dec 9, 2011 (WiC 132)

"When I opened this business, the reaction of my friends and family was ‘Are you crazy?’” says Lee Jae. The firm in question is Georgia Chopsticks and incredibly enough Lee hopes to be exporting 10 million pairs of American chopsticks to ...

China’s euro fears

Chinese debate potential for break-up of the euro
Dec 9, 2011 (WiC 132)

James Carville, the US political strategist, once said that, should he be reincarnated, he would like to come back as the bond market, because then “you can intimidate everybody”. Europe’s leaders won’t be chuckling at Carville’s ...

New film spotlights Chinese investment in Zambia
Dec 2, 2011 (WiC 131)

Mention Zambia to middle-aged Chinese, and they are likely to recall a civil engineering project: the Tan-Zam Railway. More than 16,000 Chinese workers were shipped to Zambia in the late 1960s to build this engineering colossus – which ...

New regime says no to China mega dam
Nov 18, 2011 (WiC 129)

China’s relations with some of its Southeast Asian neighbours have soured this year over territorial disputes. But one might have thought that Beijing could at least rely on its friendship with the military-backed government in Burma. So it ...

Investing in Mr Kim

China is taking advantage of trade opportunities with North Korea
Nov 11, 2011 (WiC 128)

For a stark reminder of the land that time forgot, it’s hard to do better than catch the train from Pyongyang to Beijing. The last leg of the journey out of North Korea, after a final farewell from taciturn customs officials in the city of ...

Russia wants China’s cash – but is also anxious about Beijing’s rising power
Oct 21, 2011 (WiC 126)

On three key occasions Russia has had a decisive impact on China’s worldview. The first was in 1689 when both countries signed the Treaty of Nerchinsk. It was a humiliating moment for Chinese mandarins, schooled in Middle Kingdom thinking. ...

The Senate’s scapegoat?

New US bill could label China a currency manipulator with dire results
Oct 21, 2011 (WiC 126)

"So disgusting, so dirty and vile that the reading of one page was enough for me… It is most damnable! It is written by a man with a diseased mind and a soul so black that he would obscure even the darkness of hell!” It doesn’t sound ...

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