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Universal values

“The resort showcases Sino-American cooperation, especially in the private and business sectors, despite the governments’ different political views”
Jul 2, 2021 (WiC 547)

Song Yu, chairman of Beijing Tourism Group, talks to China Daily about the Universal Beijing theme park resort which will open in a joint venture with Comcast NBCUniversal in the second half of the year. The giant project – China Daily says it ...

Enter the dragon

Harbin find unearths a new human species
Jul 2, 2021 (WiC 547)

The science of human evolution has just got more complicated. A team of Chinese-led scientists claims to have discovered a previously unknown ‘sister species’ that would have been alive at the same time as the Neanderthals and early Homo ...

“In the long term China will have a larger economy than the US – no one can change that. Time…
Jun 25, 2021 (WiC 546)

Victor Gao, a former Chinese diplomat now with the Beijing-based think tank the Centre for China and Globalisation, told the Financial Times that China’s government “should stand firm on matters of principle but not be too distracted by ...

‘Our kind of correspondent’

Why is Beijing heaping praise on American journalist Edgar Snow?
Jun 25, 2021 (WiC 546)

In the summer of 1936 the American journalist Edgar Snow sat down with Mao Zedong in the dusty surroundings of Yan’an in northern Shaanxi province. Snow was the first Western journalist to interview Mao and over the course of four months he ...

Not just the Russians

“China’s growing influence and international policies present challenges to alliance security”
Jun 18, 2021 (WiC 545)

A warning from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the organisation’s summit this week in Brussels. The message was mixed: Stoltenberg said Beijing was “not an adversary” but the NATO communiqué highlighted China’s “stated ...

Hook, line and sinker

Video from Nanjing sparks discussion about pensioner fishing craze
Jun 18, 2021 (WiC 545)

M ost readers of WiC will be familiar with the term dama, referring to typically female retirees who congregate in public spaces and parks to dance each evening. But what of their husbands? How are they passing their time? The ...

“Personalised distribution of content is too powerful. If you like pig food, that’s all they’ll feed you”
Jun 11, 2021 (WiC 544)

Tencent’s vice-president Song Zhonghuai trashes short-video content at the China Internet Radio & Video Convention last Thursday. The remark was widely viewed as an attack on Bytedance’s popular service Douyin. The two tech rivals have ...

Supine subversion

Why Chinese leaders worry about ‘tangping’ types
Jun 11, 2021 (WiC 544)

A few weeks ago Chinese social media saw a marked uptick in the number of cat photos posted online. Only this time these cats weren’t playing with balls of string or balancing on top of bookcases – they were lying flat on their backs, supine, ...

Good for the soul

“For a good smart car the hardware is the body and the software is the soul”
Jun 4, 2021 (WiC 543)

Zhou Hongyi, founder and CEO of Qihoo 360, tells the China Daily why his firm, a leading player in antivirus software and internet security, has invested in electric vehicle start-up Nezha. “Smart cars are expected to become one of the largest ...

Con me if you can

Desperate job seekers pay Rmb4 million for airport job – only it’s a scam
Jun 4, 2021 (WiC 543)

Would you pay Rmb140,000 ($21,948) for the chance to work at Chengdu’s new international airport? You might be surprised to learn that at least 39 people did just that, thinking they had found a secret way to secure a long-term position at a ...

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