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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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“Bring me Dashan”

Canada looks to mend fractious China ties
Dec 11, 2009 (WiC 42)

The award for the best-known Canadian would likely see a close run-off between Celine Dion, Norman Bethune and Mark Rowswell. The singer’s place on the shortlist will be less surprising to most readers. But few may have heard of Bethune. ...

Stars and strifes

Survey shows declining admiration for US
Dec 4, 2009 (WiC 41)

Tsinghua is China’s premier university, and counts China’s current leader Hu Jintao among its alumni. But it wouldn’t exist at all had it not been for a stunning act of American generosity. How so? After the Boxer Rebellion was crushed ...

Enter the dragon

What to expect from Obama’s first presidential visit to China
Nov 13, 2009 (WiC 38)

Barack Obama becomes the third of three iconic American figures to appear on Chinese soil this month, as part of his nine day Asian tour. Of course, the American president may not see the likes of Michael Jackson and Mickey Mouse as his most ...

A more Khan-do spirit

CIC announces Mongolian mineral deals. What would Genghis think?
Nov 6, 2009 (WiC 37)

What ‘lies beneath’ has long had the potential to stir controversy between China and its Mongolian neighbour to the north. And so it was again last month, when Japan-based Kyodo News reported that an old woman from Dalian (who reckons ...

Welcome to Chindonesia…

The latest deal between China and resource-rich Indonesia emerges
Oct 30, 2009 (WiC 36)

For years, associations with anything Chinese have carried a political risk in Indonesia. During the Suharto era, China was often stigmatised because of the dictator’s anti-communist stance – with unfortunate results for the nation’s ...

Bordering on hysteria

Territorial disputes underline the fragility of Sino-Indian relations
Oct 23, 2009 (WiC 35)

China and India are brothers,” declared Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, in the 1950s. But there’s growing fear in India of Chinese hegemony. As a border dispute heated up again last week, it provoked an impassioned public ...

It’s only natural

It’s gas, not Marx, shaping Sino-Russian relations
Oct 23, 2009 (WiC 35)

Sino-Russian relations have had their ups and downs. One Beijing academic traces the beginnings of China’s ‘era of humiliations’ to the Treaty of Nerchinsk, signed with Russia in 1689. Relations improved in 1950, when Mao Zedong signed a ...

Brought to you by Toshiba

National Day ad enrages netizens but Sino-Japanese ties look brighter
Oct 12, 2009 (WiC 34)

China’s internet community is particularly peeved by last week’s ‘Toshiba’ incident. The problem was that the Japanese firm’s billboard was clearly visible during last Thursday’s live broadcast of the National Day Parade. It even ...

Raining on the parade

Foreign and Chinese media offer widely differing views on the National Day Parade, its organisation and its significance.
Oct 2, 2009 (WiC 33)

A well-prepared event? The Chinese media evidently thought so. The two and a half hour parade went off without a hitch. About 108,000 people marched past Tiananmen Gate saluting the country’s leaders. The event also featured ...

Speaking the same language

English set to be replaced as Singapore’s first language – by Mandarin
Sep 25, 2009 (WiC 32)

When Deng Xiaoping travelled to southern China in 1992 to campaign for faster economic liberalisation, he seems to have liked what he saw: “Singapore’s social order is rather good. Its leaders exercise strict management. We should learn from ...

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