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America launches a full-frontal assault on China’s tech champion Huawei
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

One of the most potent symbols of President Richard Nixon’s groundbreaking trip to China in 1972 was Beijing’s gift to Washington of two pandas: Ling Ling and Hsing Hsing. The bears’ arrival on US territory marked a new diplomatic era in ...

A bad quarter for Baidu, which drops it further behind its BAT rivals
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

In the Oxford English Dictionary, a word is regarded as ‘obsolete’ or ‘archaic’ if no evidence of its written usage can be found after 1930. The term ‘BAT’ hardly fits that bracket, but it is showing signs of becoming outdated. Short ...

More attacks on CPEC projects in Pakistan
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

Sometime later this year or early next, cinema audiences in China and Pakistan will get to see The Journey – a feature-length drama about an engineer’s dreams of upgrading the Karakorum Highway, one of the world’s highest-altitude ...

Huadian Energy faces potential delisting
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

In 2014 there were two events that triggered a rethink on risk appetites in the Chinese financial markets. The authorities broke with the so-called ‘Beijing put’ by allowing bond issuers to default for the first time. And a lossmaking ...

Chemical firm’s campaign to restart share trading brings more trouble
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

Which is the most troublesome Hong Kong IPO in recent memory? More than a few investment bankers in the city might pick Tianhe Chemicals. Positioning itself as a major supplier of lubricant additives to refiners such as PetroChina, the ...

Gridiron versus soccer analogy used to explain Sino-US falling out
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

Last week’s HSBC China Conference – the sixth of the annual gatherings – attracted a record attendance for its three-days of meetings, presentations and debates in Shenzhen. In his opening remarks, HSBC Chairman Mark Tucker put in context ...

Welsh coach fired by Hebei
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

Fans of the Chinese football club Guangzhou Evergrande stoked heated debates two years ago by displaying a huge banner during a match in Hong Kong. “Annihilate British dogs; Extinguish Hong Kong independence poison,” the catchy slogan read, ...

Korean war movies ‘in’ – Game of Thrones and a US college drama ‘out’
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

The world watched with baited-breath this week as an eight-year odyssey drew to a close and it finally became clear who had won the Iron Throne of Westeros. Well, that is, the world apart from China. There, fans of Game of Thrones ...

All Wikipedia banned in China
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia has many entries on the subject of censorship in China. There is a page about the Great Firewall – the colloquial name for the virtual barrier that controls access on the Chinese internet. There is even a ...

The China-US trade row got a lot messier over the past week
May 17, 2019 (WiC 452)

The toughest ‘trade talks’ Beijing had previously held with Washington involved China’s accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The negotiations dragged on for 15 years. That was long enough to “turn black hair white” as former ...

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