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News on China’s Relations with Rest of the World

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Tech wars, round two

Spat between Seoul and Tokyo could help China’s chip goals
Aug 2, 2019 (WiC 462)

South Korea’s leader Moon Jae-in likes to be known as the Dark King because of his resemblance to the anime character of the same name. But that’s probably the limit to how far he wants to be seen as embracing Japanese culture. Since he ...

Beautiful friendship (part 2)

Another twist in the trade row as Trump softens ban on sales to Huawei
Jul 5, 2019 (WiC 458)

Perhaps the beginning of the end of the Cold War can be traced back to the 1971 world table tennis championships in Japan’s Nagoya. Prior to that diplomatic ties between China and the US had been severed since 1949. The icy relations began to ...

Chinese trade delegation arrives in the UK to celebrate new stock link
Jun 21, 2019 (WiC 457)

“The UK attitude is one of increasing weakness,” the US Secretary of State wrote to the President. “Britain seems to feel that we’re disposed to accept present risks of a Chinese war and this… has badly frightened them.” The ...

Is Trump’s trade war bringing China and Russia ever closer together?
Jun 14, 2019 (WiC 456)

This year marks the seventieth anniversary of formal diplomatic relations being established between China and Russia. To mark the occasion President Xi Jinping visited Moscow and St Petersburg last week. It was an over-the top-affair – as ...

Chinese navy sails into Sydney and does some shopping
Jun 14, 2019 (WiC 456)

Not the usual white powder’ was the feedback from the police last year after a raid on a property in Sydney turned up 4,000 tins of milk formula. They later arrested five people, the Nikkei Asian Review said, on allegations that stolen formula ...

Rare opportunity

Is a ban on rare earth exports really a bargaining chip in the trade war?
Jun 7, 2019 (WiC 455)

The Sino-US trade conflict was predicted in 2011 by a somewhat unlikely source: Michael Scott of Dunder Mifflin. The protagonist of the American version of The Office begins an episode titled ‘China’ by picking up objects and ...

Return to sender

China plans blacklist as US trade tension escalates – will FedEx be on it?
Jun 7, 2019 (WiC 455)

Two weeks after the Trump administration put Huawei on an export blacklist, the Chinese have struck back by announcing a hit-list is being compiled of “unreliable entities”. The authorities haven’t finalised which companies might ...

The heart of the matter

SMIC’s delisting in New York is yet another milestone in the Sino-US tech war
May 31, 2019 (WiC 454)

The Chinese name of SMIC is Zhongxin Guoji. The first two Chinese characters are a pun on ‘China’s heart’ while the latter two mean ‘international”. The name sums up the patriotic mission that the state-backed foundry has struggled with ...

Phoney war hots up

America launches a full-frontal assault on China’s tech champion Huawei
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

One of the most potent symbols of President Richard Nixon’s groundbreaking trip to China in 1972 was Beijing’s gift to Washington of two pandas: Ling Ling and Hsing Hsing. The bears’ arrival on US territory marked a new diplomatic era in ...

A dangerous path

More attacks on CPEC projects in Pakistan
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

Sometime later this year or early next, cinema audiences in China and Pakistan will get to see The Journey – a feature-length drama about an engineer’s dreams of upgrading the Karakorum Highway, one of the world’s highest-altitude ...

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