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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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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 ...

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 ...

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