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China and the World

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The Kim Jong-un Express

Say what you like about him but Kim Jong-un certainly has his mercurial moments
Apr 6, 2018 (WiC 403)

Such is his distrust of all things South Korean that even its pop music – or K-pop in everyday parlance – is forbidden. Kim Jong-un’s subjects risk imprisonment if they are caught playing it and Seoul has made a point of blasting K-pop ...

The trade warrior

Trump hits China with new, more punitive tariffs
Mar 23, 2018 (WiC 402)

This is the first of many” was the promise from Donald Trump on Thursday as he signed an executive order that could slap 25% tariffs on up to $60 billion of Chinese imports. The order follows an investigation from the US Trade ...

Setting the standards

How fears about Huawei scuppered Broadcom’s bid for Qualcomm
Mar 16, 2018 (WiC 401)

In the struggle to establish global standards for new technologies the Chinese and the Americans are often on opposing sides. Things were different in the late 1990s when Qualcomm’s founder Irwin Jacobs was trying to commercialise CDMA, a ...

Former president predicts trouble in the Maldives
Mar 2, 2018 (WiC 399)

The prognosis for the Maldives over the next few decades isn’t terrific. If global warming doesn’t see its low-lying archipelago submerged by rising seas, China may end up controlling much of its landmass due to its government’s inability ...

Spring Gala skit stirs criticism in Africa
Mar 2, 2018 (WiC 399)

Thus far 2018 hasn’t been great for Sino-African relations. In late January, the French newspaper Le Monde reported that Chinese officials had been stealing information from the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa. Beijing paid for the ...

Dog days ahead for him?

Trump to face a tough year, forecasts feng shui master Yeung Tin-ming
Feb 15, 2018 (WiC 398)

The 12 Chinese zodiac signs calibrate with Jupiter’s orbit around the sun, which takes 12 Earth years. As a general rule of thumb, one is likely to have a very fateful year in years corresponding to one’s birth sign – which means those born ...

Travels with Auntie

A friendly reception for the British leader, despite a Belt and Road blip
Feb 9, 2018 (WiC 397)

Back in August 2016 WiC reported that British Prime Minister Theresa May had been bestowed with two nicknames by the Chinese: Auntie Plum Blossom and the Second Iron Lady. The second was in tribute to Margaret Thatcher, although any ...

Das ist nicht gut

German press turns negative on China’s rise
Feb 2, 2018 (WiC 396)

In the German imagination, an alptraum (the word for ‘nightmare’) involves a mythical creature called the Alp. Some folklore has it that the Alp terrifies sleepers by sitting on their chests, and as they wake they have a ...

Washington’s new consensus

Huawei’s ambitions face fresh setback as US politics unravels AT&T deal
Jan 19, 2018 (WiC 394)

On January 9, 2007, more than 140,000 techies swarmed to Vegas for the annual CES show. They were lining up for what was billed as the world’s largest and glitziest consumer electronics exhibition. But Steve Jobs stole the thunder 400 miles ...

A crisis waiting to happen?

Author discusses the potential trouble ahead for Sino-Japanese relations
Jan 12, 2018 (WiC 393)

From the earliest editions of WiC (see issue 14) we have argued that one of the most volatile and potentially dangerous relationships the world faces is between a rising China and a nervy Japan that feels threatened by this geopolitical shift. ...

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