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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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Is China good for Africa?

Deborah Brautigam has spent 30 years studying this question. Her answer...
Jan 14, 2011 (WiC 91)

You may struggle to guess the identity of China’s first official aid project in sub-Saharan Africa. A road, you may think, or a bridge? Perhaps a dam? All plausible, but ultimately wrong answers. In fact, it was a cigarette factory. This ...

What WikiLeaks has revealed about China
Dec 16, 2010 (WiC 89)

"Why not give the peace prize to Julian Assange?” was the headline in the Beijing Daily last week, in a thinly disguised dig at events that day in Norway. But as the dust settles on the most recent round of WikiLeaks revelations, China’s ...

Flexing its muscles?

China is getting more assertive, making some of its neighbours increasingly uneasy
Dec 3, 2010 (WiC 88)

In his timing and choice of title, author Martin Jacques was doubly blessed this year. As Beijing became increasingly assertive, the pull of his book – When China Rules the World – grew by the day. One particularly insightful ...

Bordering on crazy

End of an era: China mulls options for North Korea after Kim Jong-il
Dec 3, 2010 (WiC 88)

The lyrics of Pyongyang’s smash hit No Motherland Without You must have seemed a good idea 15 years ago. But the composers of North Korea’s favourite tune must now wonder how much airtime they have left. Suddenly, their song’s ...

Mid-term elections and QE2 bemuse Chinese
Nov 12, 2010 (WiC 85)

When Richard Nixon was ushered into Mao Zedong’s presence, the aging Chinese leader famously remarked: “I voted for you during your election. I like rightists.”
Mao, it seems, preferred dealing with the Republican Party. But what of ...

India gets Shanghaied

Why Reliance is spending $8.3 billion on Chinese power plants
Nov 5, 2010 (WiC 84)

When Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group first inked a deal with Shanghai Electric two years ago, it conferred ‘most-favoured supplier’ status on the state-owned Chinese power equipment maker. It was a bold move at the time, considering the ...

Everybody needs good neighbours

How Australia’s economy is fast becoming a proxy for Chinese growth
Oct 29, 2010 (WiC 83)

It’s no longer just Kylie singing about it. The Aussie singer made her chart debut with ‘I Should Be So Lucky’ and her native land is revisiting its reputation as the Lucky Country. On what basis, you might ask: the beach-and-barbecue ...

And infrastructure too: why India struggles to build as big as China
Oct 1, 2010 (WiC 80)

The races haven’t been run, the medals are yet to be awarded, but where it matters most, India’s political leaders are already being portrayed as also-rans. The Commonwealth Games are only a few days away. But the dream of besting the ...

China irks the US in Pakistan
Oct 1, 2010 (WiC 80)

China is replacing the United States as the pre-eminent power in Asia. At least, that’s the conclusion drawn recently by Dilip Hiro, political analyst and author of 30 books, who was born in what is today’s Pakistan. For further confirmation, ...

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 ...

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