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China Ink

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Chinese, but still a Yankee

How Barack Obama’s decision to appoint Gary Locke, the US' first ethnic Chinese ambassador to China, was greeted.
Mar 18, 2011 (WiC 99)

Return of the prodigal son? Return of the prodigal son? The Chinese media downplayed any talk of the advantages of Locke’s ethnicity. “We need not overemphasize [Gary] Locke’s Chinese origins,” the China Daily quoted ...

Different takeaways

What the Indian and Chinese press said about Wen Jiabao’s state visit in December
Jan 7, 2011 (WiC 90)

From trust deficit… The Chinese press was full of praise for Premier Wen Jiabao’s three-day trip to India last month, with Xinhua crowing that “[the] Chinese premier [and] Indian prime minister reached broad consensus on ...

Worst inflation in a decade?

The big news this week was that food prices are soaring
Nov 19, 2010 (WiC 86)

Food inflation: a serious problem? China’s consumer price index reached 4.4% in October, its highest rate in 25 months. That took inflation to the top of the government agenda, said China Securities Daily, quoting ...

His predecessors came with Dragoons. David Cameron tried to create a stir in Beijing with the UK's biggest ever trade…
Nov 12, 2010 (WiC 85)

Respect is due… A prime minister, his chancellor, 3 other cabinet ministers, 40 journalists and close to 50 captains of industry. Not a bad haul, the Chinese media agreed. But no sign of Cameron’s deputy Nick Clegg, ...

Did Japan capitulate?

Japan’s release of a Chinese trawler captain has not defused tensions between the two countries
Oct 1, 2010 (WiC 80)

From bad to worse? Literally minutes after WiC was published last Friday, Japan released Zhan Qixong the trawler captain, whose detention over the past weeks had erupted into a major Sino-Japanese diplomatic incident. Crisis ...

Worth a celebration?

Hu Jintao travelled to Shenzhen this week to celebrate 30 years since the formation of the city’s Special Economic Zone.…
Sep 10, 2010 (WiC 77)

Ahead of the rest? It was a time for celebration in the Chinese press, which quoted liberally from a speech given by Hu Jintao at the anniversary celebrations on Monday. China’s president waxed lyrical about the ...

You thought the M25 was bad

A 100-mile traffic jam last month saw drivers stuck for up to 10 days.
Sep 3, 2010 (WiC 76)

Blame trucks, not cars... According to the Beijing Youth Daily, the main culprit is a steep increase in coal trucks. More than 8,000 of them are passing traffic hotspots in outer Beijing on a daily basis, the Economic ...

Sayonara, salary man

China surpasses Japan as the world’s second largest economy
Aug 20, 2010 (WiC 74)

Raise a glass to China’s economic success? The Global Times allowed itself a small celebration, puffing that China's economy had “overwhelmingly outperformed” that of Japan. Expect to see it unseat Japanese GDP on an ...

A case of poor timing?

What is being positioned as the world’s biggest IPO is set to list in Hong Kong and Shanghai on July…
Jun 18, 2010 (WiC 65)

Great expectations? Agricultural Bank of China’s (ABC) management began marketing its story to investors this week, hoping to top in size the $21.9 billion IPO of ICBC in 2006. As the China Daily observed: “The green light ...

No breakthroughs, but Chinese media hails Sino-US talks as a great success. American press meanwhile wonders what exactly was achieved.…
May 28, 2010 (WiC 62)

Who turned up? The Chinese media was rather pleased at the size of the visiting group, with more than 200 US officials making the trip. President Obama wasn’t amongst them but at least 50 ministerial level appointments were ...

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