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Striking the right note

“If two fine orchestras are to work together harmoniously, their conductors must first set the same tone, and all the…
Sep 30, 2022 (WiC 602)

Wang Yi, China’s Foreign Minister, speaking at the Asia Society in New York last week, complained that the “US team seems to have two different sets of music score” in which commitments from Joe Biden to a “stable bilateral ...

Digging its heels in

French brand Louboutin wins claim on iconic shoe design
Sep 30, 2022 (WiC 602)

Christian Louboutin is a veteran of trademark battles, filing various lawsuits to protect its red-soled stilettos. The French shoemaker locked horns with YSL in the United States, for example, making the case that it had exclusive rights to ...

Mixed messages

“In my view, ‘strategic ambiguity’ is being eroded, but what is replacing it is closer to ‘strategic confusion’ than ‘strategic…
Sep 23, 2022 (WiC 601)

Bonnie Glaser, a Taiwan expert at the German Marshall Fund, responds in the Financial Times to comments from Joe Biden that the US military would defend Taiwan from an “unprecedented attack”. Beijing responded angrily that the remarks ...

The home stretch

“We have to work hard and put our nose to the grindstone to ensure the delivery of projects. Only in…
Sep 16, 2022 (WiC 600)

Evergrande chairman Xu Jiayin says construction has started again on 668 of the company’s 706 pre-sold projects in China. Investors in the company are still waiting for details on its restructuring, though, although one creditor has just ...

Too hasty on pastry

Shanghai shoppers back Korean bakery after lockdown fine
Sep 16, 2022 (WiC 600)

South Korean pop culture has enjoyed such sweeping success in China in the past that the term hanliu, which translates as ‘Korean wave’ but sounds the same as ‘cool current’ in Mandarin, was coined to celebrate it. That’s ...

Brick by brick

“Will we continue our investment decisions in the Chinese mainland? The short answer is yes. Irrespective of the short-term volatility,…
Sep 9, 2022 (WiC 599)

Tim Blackburn, chief executive of Swire Properties, speaks to the South China Morning Post about the firm’s 10-year $12.7 billion investment plan in Shenzhen, where it will develop its Taikoo Li and Taikoo Hui mixed-use projects. Swire has ...

Wu Yibing

Wu Yibing
Sep 9, 2022 (WiC 599)

Born in Hangzhou, Wu Yibing, 22, was introduced to tennis when he was a boy because his parents were worried he was overweight. They initially wanted him to try badminton but the net was too high and he could not hit the shuttlecock over it. So ...

Not retiring (after all)

McDonald’s proves hit employer as new pensioners’ job site is launched
Sep 9, 2022 (WiC 599)

Retirement age in China is 60 for men and 50 or 55 for women (earlier for blue-collar roles). But with the country aging rapidly, there are concerns that a shrinking workforce will impose increased burdens on the state. One potential ...

Climate credit

“They have said they will do X, Y and Z and they have done more”
Sep 2, 2022 (WiC 598)

US climate envoy John Kerry tells the Financial Times that China has “generally speaking, outperformed its commitments” in tackling global warming. Beijing cut short climate talks with the US after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to ...

Moral messages

Audiences annoyed as censors target cartoon
Sep 2, 2022 (WiC 598)

In the first instalment of the Despicable Me franchise, released in 2010, the hero Felonious Gru is a longtime villain who devotes himself to a life of grand heists such as stealing the Moon. So Chinese filmgoers were surprised to ...

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