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China and the World

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2018: year of the backlash?

From Australia to America, nations are pushing back against China’s rise
Jan 5, 2018 (WiC 392)

China’s first bullet trains left Beijing for Tianjin in December 2007 and most domestic media at the time focused on its role serving the capital’s 2008 Olympiad. But it was actually the start of something more profoundly far-reaching. This ...

Meet the MBA chef

DaDong’s Peking duck woos New York but its state-owned rival struggles
Jan 5, 2018 (WiC 392)

Along with sweet and sour pork, roast Peking duck is one of the most well known of Chinese foods among foreign diners. Less known: more than 70% of the poultry used for the famous dish are Cherry Valley ducks bred by a British firm with the same ...

EU accuses China of dumping e-bikes
Dec 8, 2017 (WiC 391)

Plenty of Chinese cities have banned electric bicycles. Unlicenced and often driven on pavements instead of roads, the silent speedsters have been described as a dangerous scourge. And now the European Union is also saying that China’s ...

In the thick of it

Trouble in New York over alleged bribery in the African oil sector
Dec 1, 2017 (WiC 390)

Known as an action star, Sibelle Hu featured in Hong Kong’s kung fu movies of the 1980s. In 1997 she took on a more challenging role in a film about a CIA plot to assassinate Mao Zedong during his 1949 visit to Moscow (in The Rising Sun and the ...

He came, he dealt, he tweeted

Lavish welcome for US president – as $253 billion of deals get announced
Nov 10, 2017 (WiC 387)

Li Zhaoxing, China’s foreign minister from 2003 to 2007, has personally encountered six presidents of the US. According to the veteran diplomat, the Sino-US relationship always oscillates between cooperation and competition and the mood often ...

Passage to India

An account of China and India’s intertwined history
Nov 3, 2017 (WiC 386)

“Those who come between or dare/ Tamper with us. We reply: Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai.” This verse of solidarity (bhai-bhai means ‘brother-brother) was part of a poem composed by Harindranath Chattopadhyaya to celebrate the 1954 Panchasheel ...

Lion State leader travels to Beijing to rebuild relations after rift
Sep 29, 2017 (WiC 382)

It wasn’t that long ago that China, home to 1.38 billion people, was open in its admiration for tiny Singapore – a standout example of a country that had achieved advanced economic status under the long-term rule of a single political ...

Both sides claim vindication after border truce
Sep 1, 2017 (WiC 378)

For 73 days Indian and Chinese troops stared at each other across a scrubby patch of land high in the Himalayas. Occasionally they exchanged insults and threw stones. Mercifully, the stand-off never escalated into full-scale hostilities. And on ...

Another August crisis

How is China dealing with missile tensions between US and North Korea?
Aug 18, 2017 (WiC 376)

The Chinese proverb “If the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold” is an old one, coined to describe an interdependent relationship. In more modern times it has featured in terms of China’s ties with North Korea, which Mao Zedong once ...

Stony relations

No sign of resolution in Sino-Indian border row
Aug 18, 2017 (WiC 376)

The threat of a major confrontation in the Korean Peninsula this summer has led to one of the most serious nuclear stand-offs since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Less well remembered is that at a similar time in 1962 there was a Sino-Indian war that ...

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