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China and the World

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Chinese-designed plane shoots down Indian jet
Mar 8, 2019 (WiC 443)

Did Pakistan use a Chinese-designed fighter jet to down an Indian MiG over Kashmir last month? That seems likely if, as Islamabad says, its air force wasn’t flying an American-made F-16. The question is important because deployment of an ...

My way or the Huawei

Has Europe become the key battleground for the Chinese giant’s 5G future?
Mar 1, 2019 (WiC 442)

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is still the world’s most important tech fair but for people in the telecoms sector the biggest event on the calendar is the Mobile World Congress (MWC). The gathering is organised by the GSM ...

“No divergence” says MBS

Saudi crown prince gets a warm welcome in Beijing as he unveils deals
Mar 1, 2019 (WiC 442)

Saudi Arabia is home to Islam’s two holiest cites: Mecca and Medina, both visited by millions of pilgrims every year. So you might think its crown prince would have something to say about China's alleged internment of up to a million Muslims ...

Turkish undelight

Erdogan’s China quandary resurfaces
Feb 22, 2019 (WiC 441)

It was the moment many had been waiting for – a major Muslim country blasting China for its internment of up to a million Uighurs in the western region of Xinjiang. The February 9 statement by Turkey’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hami ...

Not so diplomatic

Canadian ambassador fired for Huawei remarks
Feb 1, 2019 (WiC 439)

When two pandas were born at Toronto zoo in 2016, Canada’s leader Justin Trudeau helped to name them. He had just been elected and he had promised to boost ties with China during his campaign. The future looked bright, so the cubs were named ...

A captive market

Huawei CFO released on bail in case that casts shadow over trade talks
Dec 14, 2018 (WiC 435)

The two defining themes in Sino-US relations over the last 12 months – trade war and tech rivalry – have combined in a furious finish to the year. They came together on the first day of December in the arrest of Huawei’s chief financial ...

Retail politics

Shanghai’s latest expo rebrands China as an import giant
Nov 9, 2018 (WiC 431)

Trade fairs often have an outsized impact in China. For instance, eight years ago WiC published a special edition on the Shanghai Expo. That lavish event was deftly positioned as a celebration of China’s arrival on the global stage. But in ...

Welcome, my frenemy

The Editor of Asian Affairs assesses improvements in Sino-Japanese ties
Oct 26, 2018 (WiC 429)

Five years ago it would have been almost inconceivable that the Prime Minister of Japan, Abe Shinzo, would be so warmly welcomed in China. At that time, the Chinese state media portrayed Abe as a revisionist, who made light of Japan’s ...

Last man standing

Is the China-US trade spat turning into a new Cold War?
Oct 19, 2018 (WiC 428)

The term ‘Cold War’ was first introduced by the author George Orwell to describe conflict pursued more by economic and political means rather than by military might. But historians tend to date the onset of the superpower rivalry that ...

Red notice, red-faced

Interpol embarrassed by detention of its president in China
Oct 19, 2018 (WiC 428)

The International Criminal Police Organisation, better known as Interpol, specialises in manhunts, issuing “red notices” for wanted criminals and “yellow notices” for missing persons. But even the 95 year-old agency was stumped in ...

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