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Coining the cash

Binance keeps growing, despite China’s crypto crackdown
Dec 10, 2021 (WiC 567)

Tweets from Elon Musk have a history of sparking sudden moves in share prices, not just for his own company Tesla but also in sectors like cryptocurrency, where prices soar, or slump, in response to his pronouncements. So another of his ...

The Vientiane Express

Who benefits most from China’s just opened $6 billion train line in Laos?
Dec 10, 2021 (WiC 567)

Buddhist monks, a lucky gong and a video call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping were all part of the celebrations as Laos formally launched its $6 billion rail link with China last week. Timed to coincide with the 46th anniversary of the Lao ...

Big, but failed

Evergrande on the verge of state-led restructuring
Dec 10, 2021 (WiC 567)

The Evergrande debacle has been a drama of many acts as the company stumbles from one crisis to the next, weighed down by more than $300 billion of debt. But are we reaching the final scenes in the story of its decline? The last few weeks have ...

The writing’s on the wall

Tencent opens up its walled ecosystem further to rivals
Dec 10, 2021 (WiC 567)

Most parents with young kids experience non-stop bickering over who gets which toy or which TV show to watch. More often than not, adults have to intervene and impose a solution. Last week, the Chinese government stepped into the role of ...

Midea to take Kuka private
Dec 10, 2021 (WiC 567)

The German playwright Bertolt Brecht was always very keen to strip away theatrical artifice so that his audiences remained alert to the deeper meaning of his plays. The avowed Marxist was celebrated for breaking down “the fourth wall” between ...

The greenest gas?

Why Sinopec is betting big on a hydrogen future
Dec 10, 2021 (WiC 567)

If you believe that the universe was formed as the result of a Big Bang, then hydrogen was the first element that was created. Physicists think that hydrogen constitutes 75% of the universe’s matter. And if things go to plan, hydrogen might ...

Property magnate switches tack to steamed buns
Dec 10, 2021 (WiC 567)

Mao Daqing, like many other of the senior executives at his previous employer Vanke, is an outdoor sports enthusiast. Famously Vanke founder Wang Shi has climbed Mount Everest – twice, in fact. Mao, a former vice-president at the property ...

Could Wang Yibo’s popular new drama boost iQiyi’s sagging bottom line?
Dec 10, 2021 (WiC 567)

In 2019 Youku released the suspense drama The Longest Day in Chang’an. Much like the premise of US hit 24, the show takes place over a single day. It followed an intelligence chief and a death row prisoner as they work ...

Macau’s casino sector stunned by the arrest of its top junket boss
Dec 3, 2021 (WiC 566)

Different casino companies lay claim to the status of the largest gambling firm. Spanning at least 600,000 square feet in area, the WinStar World in Oklahoma wins the title by floor space, for instance. Las Vegas Sands used to be the biggest ...

Seoul searching

Korean chip giant faces a China quandary
Dec 3, 2021 (WiC 566)

Much has changed since 2006 when the former chief executive of SK Hynix said that the opening of the company’s first semiconductor foundry in Wuxi in China marked the “establishment of a global network linking South Korea, the US and ...

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