Regulars

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, ...

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, ...

What’s in a name?
Live-stream celebrity stirs debate on feminism
May 22, 2020 (WiC 496)

American singer Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus) took his mother’s maiden name when he was 13. Actress Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson) chose her mother’s surname when she got her start in Hollywood. Of course, most people in ...

Mike sends a message
“The American people, and I hope people all across the world, understand the risk to the globe, to freedom-loving countries…
May 22, 2020 (WiC 496)

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells Breitbart News that China was a risk to “the United States and all free nations”, referencing how Beijing was aiming to control “straits and sea lanes all around the world”. The language marks a ...

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 ...

Going up a gear
“China has always been the engine of Volkswagen’s success, especially now, as the economy in Europe and the US is…
May 15, 2020 (WiC 495)

Comments made via a Sina Weibo post last weekend by Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess. A rebound in VW’s sales in China in April pushed its local market share up 1.7 percentage points to 21%.

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 ...

A breath of fresh air
New York Times virus specialist has a different take on China's response to the pandemic
May 8, 2020 (WiC 494)

Having started my career as a video journalist at CNN in Atlanta in the 1990s, I have always held a favourable view of the mainstream Western press, seeing its missions of overseeing the powerful and promoting justice and freedom of speech as ...

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