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Guilty as charged?

Tesla dressed down after customer complaints
Feb 19, 2021 (WiC 529)

What a difference two years can make. At the beginning of 2019, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang offered Elon Musk a green card after the Tesla founder said how much he loved coming to China. This year his company has been issued with a yellow card ...

The complete package

How SF Express is going global via its offer for Robert Kuok’s Kerry Logistics
Feb 19, 2021 (WiC 529)

Throughout Chinese history emperors surrounded their heirs with the most trustworthy of court officials in a bid to ensure the longevity of their dynasty. At 97, Robert Kuok is probably the oldest businessman of his generation yet to fully ...

Will Greenland’s project face the wrecking ball?
Feb 19, 2021 (WiC 529)

In 2016, Fan Bingbing appeared in a TV commercial for a luxury residential project in Shandong’s coastal city Qingdao. Reportedly the starlet was one of the buyers of the villas there. “It’s so close to the ocean. You can dip your toes in ...

China’s jabless rate

Is the nation falling behind in race to vaccinate?
Feb 19, 2021 (WiC 529)

China’s response to the Covid-19 crisis has provoked different reactions. The initial handling of the outbreak is still viewed critically by many, although subsequent efforts to ship crucial supplies to other nations for their own fight against ...

China’s biggest tooth-brace brand is set for a listing in Hong Kong
Feb 19, 2021 (WiC 529)

Zia Chishti has no training in orthodontics. And yet he came up with a teeth-straightening idea that has sidelined methods relying on brackets and wires. Known as Invisalign, Chishti’s stroke of genius uses 3D printing and a series of clear ...

Cinemas welcome 34 million

Chinese box office sets new records over the new year holiday period
Feb 19, 2021 (WiC 529)

While cinemas in the United States are gathering cobwebs, China’s movie industry has celebrated a much busier Chinese New Year. Last Friday – the first day of the national holiday and traditionally the best day at the box office each year – ...

New year greeting

Presidential phone call signals reset in relations
Feb 19, 2021 (WiC 529)

The telephone call between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping on February 10 was a long time coming. Biden had received a congratulatory message from China’s president after winning election to the White House in November but there had been no direct ...

Tit-for-tat bans on CGTN and BBC as Sino-UK relations worsen
Feb 19, 2021 (WiC 529)

China Global Television News or, CGTN, began broadcasting in the UK in 2002 under the name CCTV-9. In its application for a British licence the Chinese channel claimed to be an editorially-independent state broadcaster, similar to the BBC or the ...

Why China’s first credit tech IPO was pulled
Feb 19, 2021 (WiC 529)

As public relations disasters go it doesn’t get much worse than being sanctioned for the very attribute your company is supposed to excel at. That is what’s happening to VZoom CreditTech, whose IPO in Shanghai has just been pulled by ...

Changing channel

Can Phoenix TV rebound from its P2P woes?
Feb 19, 2021 (WiC 529)

When the international arm of state broadcaster CCTV was rebranded into CGTN in 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping urged in his congratulatory message that the country’s media outlets “tell China’s stories well”. That phrase has been a ...

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