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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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Will China visa issue sour relations with UK?
Jul 23, 2010 (WiC 70)

The latest Chinese investment in London isn’t being made by a Chinese, but a Russian. A new chain of restaurants – serving healthy, quick-to-prepare Chinese street food – has been launched by entrepreneur, Igor Sagiryan, reports The Times. ...

Reds under the bed

Congress remains wary of Chinese acquisitions in the US
Jul 16, 2010 (WiC 69)

Prior to this year Amory, Mississippi was best known for a song: Carl Perkins wrote Blue Suede Shoes there in 1955, during a concert trip with Elvis and Johnny Cash. Fast-forward 50 years or so and Suspicious Minds looks like ...

Beijing woos, the Arab world reciprocates
Jun 11, 2010 (WiC 64)

We’ve been covering the national pavilions at the Shanghai Expo in recent weeks. And currently nothing demonstrates as much commitment – to Shanghai and China as a whole – as forking out $200 million on your Expo tent. So Saudi Arabia ...

Chinese navy sets course for open sea
May 28, 2010 (WiC 62)

The fallout this week over the alleged North Korean torpedoing of the Cheonan, a South Korean warship, reminds us that confrontations at sea are not necessarily a thing of the past. In the Korean case, China is being urged to do more to ...

“We preferred Chirac”

Sarkozy jets to Beijing to repair Sino-French rift
May 7, 2010 (WiC 59)

There was a warm glow to Sino-French relations between 1995 and 2007. It was an era when Chinese state visits to Paris would usually result in a large order for Toulouse-assembled Airbus aircraft. Or maybe a French nuclear reactor. That was no ...

Homeland insecurity

Changes in demand for rare earth mean California may start digging
Apr 23, 2010 (WiC 57)

During the Cold War era, the US government kept a close watch on supplies of rare earth minerals – 17 valuable metals that have special electromagnetic properties vital to military technologies. But as the Berlin Wall came down, and the Soviet ...

Australia’s ties with China continue to tighten
Feb 12, 2010 (WiC 49)

Not so very long ago if you’d asked an Aussie if he liked Chinese, he’d probably have replied he enjoyed sweet and sour pork. That’s less likely now. Through necessity, the average Australian has a far more sophisticated understanding of ...

No censor humour

Sino-American relations deteriorate over Google
Jan 29, 2010 (WiC 47)

Deng Xiaoping was just five foot tall; but his influence in modern China has been that of a giant. Yet Deng wanted China to draw as little attention to itself as possible on the international stage. “Hide brightness, nourish obscurity; bide our ...

An oily relationship

Why Beijing resists the West’s attempts to up sanctions on Iran
Jan 22, 2010 (WiC 46)

No one was expecting war to break out between Iran and China. But it has this month - albeit in cyberspace. The internet seems to be ripe with conflict at the moment, what with Beijing’s falling out with Google. And last week, a pro-Iranian ...

Out of Chafrica

China will woo Africa in coming decade
Dec 18, 2009 (WiC 43)

With the body of a musk deer, the tail of an ox, the forehead of a wolf, the hoofs of a horse and a fleshy horn like a unicorn, the Qilin occupies a special place in Chinese mythology. In the sixth century BC this mythical beast is supposed to ...

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