Regulars

Bubble trouble

“You won’t believe this weight room. This is what the bubble life looks like. Where am I? What is this…
Dec 9, 2022 (WiC 611)

Complaint by basketballer Jeremy Lin about the hotel where he was quarantining in China under Covid rules. He was later fined $1,400 by the Chinese Basketball Association for “inappropriate remarks” that violated the league’s ...

Finally at the frontier

“Twenty-five years is a long journey. Every time I missed my chance [to go into space], I felt lost and…
Dec 2, 2022 (WiC 610)

Chinese astronaut Deng Qingming, who finally made it into space as one of three crew on the Shenzhou 15 mission on Tuesday. Qing, 56, has been waiting for a space mission for a quarter of a century and will now spend six months at the ...

The personal touch

“Judging from the sheer volume of international heads of state wanting to have a one-on-one with Xi Jinping, I think…
Nov 25, 2022 (WiC 609)

Sung Wen-ti, a political scientist at Australia National University, on Xi’s meetings at summits this month with counterparts from the US, Australia, France, Holland, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. Sung told ...

Taking a stand

“There should be no unilateral change to the status. We stand ready to support Taiwan as we do in standing…
Nov 18, 2022 (WiC 608)

Comment made by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the G20 summit in Bali. He added that China “unequivocally” posed a “systemic challenge” to British interests and that it was “undoubtedly the biggest state-based threat to our ...

Network effect

“In Africa, for Africa, Huawei will continue to deepen cooperation with industry partners to support customers’ business success in the…
Nov 11, 2022 (WiC 607)

Benjamin Hou, president of Huawei’s northern Africa business, addresses the company’s first Africa 5G Summit recently in Bangkok. The keynote address was given by Coulibaly Yacouba, CEO of the Ivory Coast’s mobile spectrum authority, ...

Electric shock

“We don’t want to have Chinese neighbours that sell at a loss in Europe and then put the automotive industry…
Nov 4, 2022 (WiC 606)

Carlos Tavares, CEO of carmaking giant Stellantis, talking at the Paris Motor Show last week where both BYD and Great Wall had huge stands promoting their electric vehicle brands. Tavares called for the EU to impose tariffs on EVs from China. ...

The future is fabs

“Where the oil reserves are defined geopolitics for the last five decades. Where the fabs are for the next five…
Oct 28, 2022 (WiC 605)

Intel’s chief executive Pat Gelsinger tells a Wall Street Journal conference this week that it was “inevitable” that Washington would impose restrictions on US semiconductor exports to China. He said chip manufacturing located in the US ...

Cattle from the Kiwis

Simon Limmer, CEO of Silver Fern Farms, told the China Daily of his confidence in Chinese demand, fuelled by the…
Oct 20, 2022 (WiC 604)

“China is the largest importer of New Zealand red meat, demonstrating its preference for New Zealand as a country of origin for the product category”

Slow, but not steady

‘A slow-motion financial crisis’
Oct 7, 2022 (WiC 603)

How Logan Wright, a partner at the consultancy Rhodium Group in Hong Kong, described the impact of the slowdown in China’s property sector to the Financial Times this week. The crisis in the property market is spreading to other parts of the ...

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 ...

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