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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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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 ...

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 ...

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