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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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The elephant and the dragon

Will spat over telecoms equipment disconnect Sino-Indian relationship?
Sep 11, 2009 (WiC 30)

When Mao took power in 1949, he presided over a nation with a GDP per head 40% lower than India’s. By 2008 – Beijing’s Olympic year – that situation had been comprehensively reversed. China’s GDP per head is now more than triple that ...

Better relations in store?

Japan now welcomes Chinese tourists – especially if they have big wallets
Sep 4, 2009 (WiC 29)

At Mitsukoshi, one of Tokyo’s fanciest department stores, the shopping habits of China’s nouveau riche have been impressing even the most experienced sales managers. According to Shoji Saito, manager of Mitsukoshi’s overseas-related ...

Diplomatic digs

Trade and tantrums: Beijing’s relations with Australia sour
Aug 28, 2009 (WiC 28)

It seems to be a case of very mixed signals. On the one hand, politicians from Australia’s opposition parties are lamenting what they say is the lowest ebb in Sino-Australian relations for years. Punchy editorials in the Chinese press, which ...

A climate change indeed

The Chinese sent a large delegation to Washington this week for the Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26)

So why is the dialogue so "strategic"? Because it is widening the terms of debate between the two countries, says Dan Baxter in the China Daily. Now it is about more than just economic issues. The question is whether ...

Visiting the bank manager

Tim Geithner was in Beijing at the beginning of the week on a mission to reassure.
Jun 5, 2009 (WiC 18)

So into the lion's den... The Beijing-based Global Times was waiting with a survey of 23 Chinese economists, 17 of which deemed it “risky” to be holding US bonds. On the other hand, at least a majority of the survey was ...

The dance goes on

China and Brazil pair up on the global stage
May 29, 2009 (WiC 17)

Samba’s rhythms are often alluring ones. Too much so for the Portuguese missionaries of colonial times, who shuddered at the dance’s physical nature, as well as its literal rendering (it has Angolan roots) as a ‘bumping of belly ...

Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman is on his way to Beijing as US ambassador to China.
May 22, 2009 (WiC 16)

A friend of China? He’s already got a Chinese name – Hong Bopei – which is a good start, and the Chinese media is generally happy with his credentials. The People’s Daily is pleased too, calling the appointment ...

Harbouring suspicion

China denies that a Sri Lankan port it is building is for military use
May 22, 2009 (WiC 16)

Any port in a storm is a familiar expression, but in Sri Lanka it is a port that is causing a storm. The port in question, which is being constructed with Chinese help, is on the country’s southeastern coastline, in a town called ...

After 700 years of acrimony are Sino-Japanese relations looking up?
May 8, 2009 (WiC 14)

Rivalry between China and Japan dates back some time. In 1274, China’s Emperor Khubilai Khan established an ‘Office for the Chastisement of Japan’. Chastisement took a more practical turn in 1281, when he sent an invasion fleet of 4,400 ...

Leaving Las Vegas

Chinese businesses are heading home from overseas
Apr 17, 2009 (WiC 11)

The ‘China Rising’ literary genre sells a lot of business books, especially in airports. You will be familiar with many of the themes – that the global axis is tilting inexorably to the east, that Mandarin is our future commercial lingua ...

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