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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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Xi’s no go to Glasgow

How has China responded to “the last chance” to save planet Earth?
Nov 5, 2021 (WiC 562)

The successes of the Paris climate summit of 2015 could not have been achieved without months of groundwork from Chinese leader Xi Jinping and former US president Barack Obama to reach an agreement on a deal. “As the two largest economies in ...

Reliance on Chinese magnesium irks Europeans
Nov 5, 2021 (WiC 562)

Two of the symptoms for sufferers of magnesium deficiency are nausea and anxiety. Companies in Europe are experiencing something similar after a sudden collapse in Chinese exports of the metal. China accounted for 90% of world magnesium supply ...

Huawei inks massive deal in Saudi Arabia
Oct 29, 2021 (WiC 561)

“The Muslim husband is allowed up to four wives as long as he treats them all with fairness.” Such was the analogy from Saudi Arabia’s Prince Saud bin Faisal Al-Saud in explaining his country’s decision to deepen its relationship with ...

Growing at scale

Walmart just opened the world’s biggest Sam’s Club in Shanghai
Oct 22, 2021 (WiC 560)

Walmart sits at the heart of American shopping, especially for groceries. Yet when the retail giant opened the world’s largest membership-only warehouse club this year, it opted for China, not the US. Walmart has just opened its new ...

Coke and McDonald’s ramp up presence in China
Oct 22, 2021 (WiC 560)

Who would have thought that Ronald McDonald might become a pioneer for China’s digital currency? This follows claims this month that regulators have been pushing the fast-food chain to accept payment in the central bank’s digital yuan. The ...

China’s biggest ever movie?

New film about the Korean War highlights grim state of Sino-US relations
Oct 15, 2021 (WiC 559)

The Korean War has been called ‘the Forgotten War’ in the United States, according to the New York Times. In part that’s because coverage of the 1950s conflict was censored. Moreover, its history has often been overshadowed by books and ...

Ruckus over AUKUS

Australian submarine purchases sparks fury in France and China
Sep 24, 2021 (WiC 557)

It’s not often that China and France claim diplomatic outrage over the same event. Yet the announcement of a new defence pact between the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom has them both hopping mad. France is annoyed because ...

Ruffled feathers

What does Chinese attack on Canada Goose suggest?
Sep 24, 2021 (WiC 557)

“The moon isn’t rounder in foreign countries, and foreign down jackets aren’t any warmer either”. That’s what the Beijing-based Economic Times claimed earlier this month in support of a fine of Rmb450,000 ($69,621) for parka maker ...

Steely approach

Baosteel signs Saudi deal
Sep 24, 2021 (WiC 557)

Saudi Arabia’s oil-producing titan Saudi Aramco is hoping that it will be third time lucky in getting a massive new steel plant off the ground in the kingdom after signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China’s Baosteel. Two ...

Biden phones Xi but bilateral ties stay tense
Sep 17, 2021 (WiC 556)

The Biden administration is said to have lobbied its counterparts in Beijing this year to agree to a “red phone” hotline between the two governments, similar to the one that linked the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. In fact ...

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