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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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A bridge too far

Ankara sends mixed Belt and Road messages with aborted deal
Sep 10, 2021 (WiC 555)

What does it mean to be Turkish? It’s a question that its leaders have grappled with for centuries, thanks to the country’s location on the continental boundary between Asia and Europe. The answer is becoming more pressing in a multipolar ...

Capitulation in Kabul

What a hasty US pull-out and an Afghan regime collapse mean for China
Aug 20, 2021 (WiC 552)

There are only five mentions of the Taliban in WiC over the last 13 years. Perhaps that’s because Chinese media outlets haven’t been particularly keen on reporting what is happening in Afghanistan, a restive neighbour that shares a short ...

Beijing’s Beltway guy

The career of top diplomat Cui Tiankai is a good way to assess Sino-US ties
Jul 2, 2021 (WiC 547)

In 1996 the United States was threatening to unleash a trade war against China following a dispute over copyright piracy. “Confrontation will lead nowhere,” a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said at the time, arguing that the only way ...

Vaccine diplomacy

How the politics of Covid-19 is preventing a quicker victory over the virus
Jun 18, 2021 (WiC 545)

After getting to know each other for just 49 days, Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu and Wang Xiaofei, the mainland Chinese heir to the South Beauty restaurant group, were married in Hainan a decade ago. The wedding (see WiC101) had a fairy tale ...

Statements of intent

Biden courts allies as G7 and NATO summits cite ‘China challenge’
Jun 18, 2021 (WiC 545)

Claims that Joe Biden was an “old friend” of China’s leader Xi Jinping were always going to be tested once he took office (see WiC518). But the way that the American president has been working on putting together a new alliance against ...

Why hopes of an improvement in Sino-US ties may be wishful thinking
Jun 11, 2021 (WiC 544)

The first senior-level meeting between the US and China for more than six months in March turned into more of a dogfight than a diplomatic triumph, with the two sides taking pot shots at one another in Anchorage in front of a flabbergasted ...

Sino-Russian nuclear plants signal growing amity
May 28, 2021 (WiC 542)

When Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin signed their Sino-Soviet Pact on Valentine’s Day in 1950, it was supposed to herald a new era of “Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance”. The treaty included Soviet support for China’s nuclear ...

Talking the talk

Will new personnel see China resume a broader dialogue with the US?
May 21, 2021 (WiC 541)

The first ‘Strategic Economic Dialogue’ (SED) between the US and China took place in December 2006. For Washington, a high-level forum was needed for both countries to address economic challenges and opportunities, given that each were by ...

Xiaomi removed from Washington’s blacklist
May 21, 2021 (WiC 541)

Investment between the United States and China fell to its lowest level last year since 2009, said a new report on Wednesday by Rhodium Group and the National Committee on US-China Relations. Blame the Covid-19 pandemic and geopolitical friction, ...

China reacts to Indian Covid-19 surge
May 7, 2021 (WiC 539)

Sun Weidong, China’s ambassador to India, has been busy on Twitter. As a brutal second wave of Covid-19 ravaged Indian cities, Sun posted a series of messages showing much-needed medical supplies destined for delivery in India. “India is our ...

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