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Regulars

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“Whether from the perspective of sales volume or the capital market’s interest, 2020 marks the first year of smart cars”
Sep 25, 2020 (WiC 512)

He Xiaopeng, founder of electric car firm XPENG Motors, posted this comment on his WeChat account, garnering much online discussion. He wrote that 2020 is to smart EV cars what 2010 was to smartphones – that is, the takeoff year.

Village ticked off for its multi-storey cemetery
Sep 25, 2020 (WiC 512)

Last week we wrote about multi-storey pig farms – a new type of hoggery intended to save space in a country that has a fifth of the world’s population on only a tenth of its land. This week there’s another land- saving idea – albeit ...

The parent trap

A debate on whether older child should be responsible for raising younger siblings
Sep 18, 2020 (WiC 511)

In a lawsuit that has sparked much debate, two parents sued their adult daughter, Lili, because she refused to raise her two year-old brother. Lili’s parents are living on government subsidies and claim they are unfit to raise their new son. ...

Fear on the frontier

“There is now a real risk of military conflict between India and China”
Sep 18, 2020 (WiC 511)

Devesh Kapur’s op-ed in the Financial Times warns that border skirmishes in the Himalayas are happening in a context similar to the Sino-Indian War of 1962 when the US was distracted (this time by the November election, last time by the Cuban ...

Marginal grains

Midea makes new ‘AI-controlled’ rice cooker
Sep 18, 2020 (WiC 511)

Rice cookers in their modern form emerged from 1950s Japan, with a thermostat-controlled cooking temperature that shuts off the heat when the rice is done. Some of the high-end cookers in Japan today cost as much as ¥90,000 ($850). Equipped with ...

Separation anxiety

“We lose billions of dollars and if we didn’t do business with them we wouldn’t lose billions of dollars. It’s…
Sep 11, 2020 (WiC 510)

President Donald Trump again raised the idea of separating the US economy from the Chinese one on Monday, a prospect that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. Trump also vowed once again to bring jobs back from China to the US.

Lashed together

Why Pingdu is the ‘capital of fake eyelashes’
Sep 11, 2020 (WiC 510)

“The eye cannot see the eyelashes” is a Chinese proverb to describe seeing faults in others but being oblivious to your own. There are others sayings too: if something is “as close as your eyelashes” it means it is ‘about to ...

Tsai Ming-kai
Sep 4, 2020 (WiC 509)

The Taiwanese press has in the past dubbed him the “bandit phone king”, because Tsai Ming-kai’s company MediaTek traditionally manufactured the chips that powered lower-end mobile phones, mostly made in mainland China. His firm has had a ...

Malatang
Sep 4, 2020 (WiC 509)

What is it? Malatang is sometimes described as a forerunner of hotpot (see WiC47). The popular street food is effectively a hotpot being served in a fast food style. Its raw ingredients are ...

Back in the fast lane

“Of course, China’s rapid economic recovery is one important reason behind our business recovery. After all, China is the largest…
Sep 4, 2020 (WiC 509)

Porsche CEO Oliver Blum sounds an optimistic note on sales during the launch of the new Panamera last week. Blum said revenues in China were “playing an ever more important for us” and expected sales of around 87,000 cars – roughly the same ...

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