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Regulars

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University challenge

“China’s aid is regionally specific and tends to be defined by Belt and Road. One feature of Chinese policy, compared…
Jun 26, 2020 (WiC 501)

Simon Marginson, professor of higher education at Oxford University, talks to the Financial Times about reports that China is set to offer 12,000 scholarships to African students to attend Chinese universities in the coming year – more than ...

Marked for life

Two exam controversies become the talk of China’s internet
Jun 26, 2020 (WiC 501)

Another week and another round of headlines about China’s hugely competitive school and university system. Two stories, both about examination results, have captured the public mood as parents fret about the impact of the coronavirus on ...

Your country on the line

“The fact that BT and Vodafone think their own interests overwhelm the national security interests of this country doesn’t reflect…
Jun 19, 2020 (WiC 500)

UK politician and former Brexit Secretary David Davis tells the Sunday Times that the two telcos are “addicted” to Huawei kit. This came after they warned of mobile phone blackouts if Huawei equipment had to be ripped out of their networks by ...

How deep is your sub

China’s Haidou-01 submersible reaches a depth of 10,907 metres
Jun 19, 2020 (WiC 500)

With its cartoon eyes and distinctive red and yellow body, the Haidou-01 looks much like the baby clown fish from the Pixar animation Finding Nemo. And like Nemo, the unmanned submersible has been on a great adventure – in its case, ...

Eric Yuan
Jun 12, 2020 (WiC 499)

No one could hear what Eric Yuan was saying at the start of an earnings call from his video conferencing app last week. Then someone in his investor relations team reminded him to turn on the mic. As a mishap it wasn’t a major one for the ...

China’s John Lewis

“There are still lots of people, including the public, politicians and officials in government who wrongly see Huawei as a…
Jun 12, 2020 (WiC 499)

Huawei vice-president Victor Zhang tells the Financial Times that Huawei is a private company. He added that Huawei was owned by its employees “similar to the John Lewis model”. Huawei has embarked on a major advertising campaign stressing ...

Relative advantage

Families come first in new car licence lottery
Jun 12, 2020 (WiC 499)

The harmonious, multi-generational family is the Chinese ideal. You see the theme replicated in feel-good ads for everything from cooking oil to banking. The converse – inter-generational bickering – is the stuff of juicy soaps and ...

Clearing the field

“The epidemic will force the weaker companies and farmers to completely withdraw but it will be an opportunity for profit…
Jun 5, 2020 (WiC 498)

Comment by Qin Yinglin, founder and owner of pig farming giant Muyuan Foods. A combination of last year’s swine flu and the coronavirus have seen pork prices surge leading to an 863% rise in Muyuan’s profit in the first quarter, according to ...

Change of heart

New cooling-off clauses introduced as divorce rate increases
Jun 5, 2020 (WiC 498)

How much of reality TV is genuinely real and how much is staged? WiC’s guess is that much of it is manufactured, especially when celebrities are involved. The former husband of Gillian Chung – an actress from Hong Kong – confirmed as much ...

Couture under Covid

“Because of the pandemic people spend less on apparel, on fashion – people wear face masks and they don’t even…
May 29, 2020 (WiC 497)

Alibaba’s chief executive Daniel Zhang comments on the site’s fall in sales of clothing, accessories and home furnishings in the first quarter. By contrast the e-commerce giant saw sharp rises in grocery sales and cloud computing revenues, ...

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