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Luxury labels look beyond the pandemic for China profits
May 20, 2022 (WiC 585)

Wearied by weeks of home lockdowns, the fashion-conscious residents of Shanghai found a new way of lifting their spirits last month. With virus prevention officials making periodic visits to residential compounds as part of citywide testing ...

Sunac rocks market, then government intervenes
May 20, 2022 (WiC 585)

Times are tough in China’s property sector. But might they be offering a major opportunity to the bravest of bond investors? Many of the bonds issued by debt-laden property firms, especially in the offshore market, have dropped into the junk ...

Will the Philippines new leader be pro-China?
May 20, 2022 (WiC 585)

In 1975 the then president of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda travelled to China on a trip that would re-establish formal relations between Manila and Beijing. Also on that visit was the couple’s teenage son Ferdinand ...

Jabs to the chin

Why Sinovac is not immune to a media attack
May 20, 2022 (WiC 585)

Moderna was valued at $7 billion, or $23 a share, when the biotech firm went public on the Nasdaq in December 2018, a year before the Covid-19 outbreak was first reported in China’s Wuhan. The 12 year-old firm was worth nearly $500 per share at ...

Burning wheat fields are a hot topic online
May 20, 2022 (WiC 585)

The current crop of China’s senior political figures, including President Xi Jinping, were born in the 1950s. As teenagers during the Cultural Revolution, many of them were sent to work as labourers in rural parts of the country. That programme ...

Geely’s overseas acquisition drive continues
May 20, 2022 (WiC 585)

What’s in a company name? Branding experts will tell you that the naming process is crucial, of course, and perhaps there were a few billable hours on offer in thinking up the latest one for Renault in South Korea. A decision has been ...

Fuel for thought

The struggle for a “monster” lithium deposit
May 20, 2022 (WiC 585)

Chinese ambitions to take control of the biggest lithium mine in Africa looked dead in the water in April 2020 after Canberra blocked the ASX-listed miner AVZ Minerals from selling an 11.8% stake to Chinese firms including CATL (see WiC584 for a ...

An all-consuming question

Why a ‘Big Data’ cashier-less store has been a Covid victim too
May 20, 2022 (WiC 585)

Amazon unveiled the first cashier-less convenience store in Seattle in 2018. The US tech giant later rolled out the “Just Walk Out” technology to Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh-branded stores. More recently, it added two Whole Foods stores, a ...

Education divide

Is China’s education sector also decoupling from the West?
May 20, 2022 (WiC 585)

College rankings are notoriously controversial. Most of the data that compilers use to calculate the rankings is self-reported, such as the amounts of money a school raises and spends. There is also little monitoring of the accuracy of the ...

Why CCTV’s ‘rule of law’ drama is winning over few fans
May 20, 2022 (WiC 585)

Over the years, courtroom dramas have offered some pretty memorable quotes. For instance, there’s Jack Nicholson famous line: “You can’t handle the truth!” at the end of A Few Good Men in 1992. In Erin Brockovich eight ...

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