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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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Will Beijing cross Rubicon?

Italy asks China to buy its government debt and help save eurozone
Sep 16, 2011 (WiC 122)

After 10 years of restoration by skilled artisans the George C Marshall Center was reopened in the Hotel de Talleyrand in May last year. The timing was telling. After all, it was from this building that Europe was last saved from economic ...

India outmuscled

New Delhi worries about China’s growing might
Sep 16, 2011 (WiC 122)

"Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough,” British author Martin Amis once warned. Today, two of Asia’s military giants are working on proving him right. China has hiked its annual defence budget this year by 12.7% and ...

A bad week for China’s relations with Libya
Sep 9, 2011 (WiC 121)

For Chinese companies worried about the future of their $18 billion of business interests in Libya, the news this week couldn’t have been much worse. On Saturday, Toronto’s Globe and Mail newspaper published a story from Tripoli suggesting ...

Aquino promotes trade, but South China Sea issue left unresolved
Sep 9, 2011 (WiC 121)

In 1861, Co Yu Hwan left Hongjian village, his hometown in Fujian province, for the Philippines. Taking Manila as his new home, Co converted to Catholicism and took on a new name – “Jose Cojuangco,” an amalgamation of his former Chinese ...

The ‘poor’ state of the union

Angry reactions in Beijing to downgrade of its US debt holdings
Aug 19, 2011 (WiC 118)

"Every wrong has its source, and every debt its incurrer” goes the Chinese proverb, a timely view, following Standard & Poor’s downgrade of US Treasury debt this month. And the Chinese have been very clear after the news: the ...

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 ...

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