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China and the World

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Three’s a crowd

Military row highlights growing Sino-US split
Oct 5, 2018 (WiC 427)

Donald Trump’s touting of his friendship with Xi Jinping has always been tough to fathom, especially at a time when trade tensions have been getting nasty. Last week he admitted as much, telling reporters that Xi “he may not be a friend of ...

Making it personal

An insider account of Trump’s stance on China, trade and Xi Jinping
Sep 21, 2018 (WiC 425)

Fans of the Netflix show Ozark will be familiar with the Missouri terrain in which the money- laundering drama is set. What they may not realise is that the American military considers the topography of the Ozarks similar to North Korea. ...

Is the China-US trade row set to escalate further?
Sep 14, 2018 (WiC 424)

Donald Trump got his facts wrong this week when he tweeted that the growth rate in the American economy was higher than its unemployment rate for the first time in a century. Kevin Hassett, chairman of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisors, ...

Over 50 African leaders visit Beijing to discuss Xi’s Belt and Road goals
Sep 7, 2018 (WiC 423)

First mentioned by Chinese President Xi Jinping during a state visit to Kazakhstan five years ago, the Belt and Road Initiative (or BRI) celebrates its birthday this week. Backers of the biggest infrastructure build-out the world has ever ...

Baklava and a bailout?

China one of the prime candidates as Turkey looks for a financial rescue
Aug 24, 2018 (WiC 421)

According to Dagong Global, one of China’s credit rating agencies, the United States is only marginally more trustworthy than Turkey when it comes to honouring its debts. In January, Dagong downgraded its local and foreign currency credit ...

The trillion dollar question

Could China target Apple as a bargaining chip in the worsening trade war?
Aug 17, 2018 (WiC 420)

In 1893 an English engineer was carrying out a survey to build one of China’s earliest railways when he came across a fishing village called Beidaihe. Claude William Kinder immediately concluded it would make a great seaside resort. Thanks ...

How history matters for Beijing’s worldview
Aug 17, 2018 (WiC 420)

We can only make sense of the present by understanding the past. It is hardly an original idea but Robert Bickers’ Out of China explains its particular relevance in understanding today’s China. Historical consciousness has always ...

Nein, nein, nein

Germany pushes back on Chinese investment
Aug 17, 2018 (WiC 420)

Angela Merkel may choose her words a lot more carefully than Donald Trump but she has sent a similarly cautious message on the desirability of Chinese investment – after blocking two bids for German companies from Chinese suitors. At the end ...

Friends, not foes

Beijing in charm offensive as China looks for allies in Europe
Jul 20, 2018 (WiC 418)

Winston Churchill once likened American diplomacy to “a bull who carries his own china shop around with him” and the description had never sounded more fitting than during Donald Trump’s disruptive tour of Europe last week. The American ...

Doctor M’s orders

A misstep in Malaysia for China’s Belt and Road Initiative?
Jul 13, 2018 (WiC 417)

The inaugural Belt and Road Forum held in May last year was the coming-out party of Xi Jinping’s signature policy. With 29 foreign leaders attending the Beijing event, Xinhua described the gathering – rather exotically – as a “fruit ...

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