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And Finally

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Maternal instinct

Elon Musk’s mother wins over fans in China
Jul 17, 2020 (WiC 504)

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 ...

Not a diplomatic post

Netizens fume as Russia celebrates the ‘founding’ of Vladivostok on weibo
Jul 10, 2020 (WiC 503)

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 ...

Deal of the century

China Eastern lures thousands of fliers with unlimited flight passes
Jul 3, 2020 (WiC 502)

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The crying game

Jilted girlfriend gets revenge with onion dump
May 29, 2020 (WiC 497)

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, ...

The bear necessities

How the pandemic is making life difficult for pandas overseas
May 22, 2020 (WiC 496)

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 ...

Watch what you write…

Posts and messages on social media can now be used in civil cases
May 15, 2020 (WiC 495)

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 ...

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