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Tesla boss Elon Musk already has a substantial fan club in China. And now his mother does as well, following a livestreaming session with media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s ex-wife Wendi Deng. Over seven million Chinese watched Deng’s interview ...
A hundred and sixty years is nothing but a blip in the longer run of Chinese history. This was the view of many netizens last week when the Russian embassy in Beijing posted a video on its Sina Weibo account celebrating the founding, and ...
If you want to gauge how badly Covid-19 has dented the airline industry, take a look at the bailouts across the sector. After Cathay Pacific’s $5 billion rescue in early June (see WiC499), private equity group Bain Capital has taken over Virgin ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The world of Chinese e-commerce is truly impressive. Regardless of where you are, or what you want to buy, you can normally find a way to put in an order for the item that you want. Your correspondent has seen fish tanks, shipments of sand, ...
When two giant pandas from China flew into Toronto airport in 2013, their arrival was deemed important enough to merit a personal welcome from then Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Loans of bears like these are part of Beijing’s ...
Be extra careful what you say on WeChat. That’s the joke many were making last week when new rules allowing the admission of digital evidence in civil court cases took effect. Previously transcripts of conversations on social media, blog ...