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Charging into our list

Latest update to our Top 50 Unicorns ranking adds more EV-related firms
Apr 22, 2022 (WiC 581)

For anyone watching the new Apple TV+ drama WeCrashed about Adam Neumann’s meteoric rise and implosion as the boss of WeWork, the unicorn will be a familiar image. That’s because in the opening credits the mythical horned beast ...

A strategy under strain

Shanghai lockdown is angering residents and triggering supply worries
Apr 22, 2022 (WiC 581)

Few people are aware today that even after Shanghai fell to the Japanese army in 1937 about 1,000 US Marines remained stationed in the parts of the city formerly in the British concession district. And even though the city faced food ...

A trio of listings

Zhihu, among others, eyes Hong Kong share sales
Apr 22, 2022 (WiC 581)

When Zhihu went public on the New York Stock Exchange a year ago, the Quora-like Chinese online content platform priced its shares at $9.50, raising $523 million from the IPO. The company attracted e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com, ...

The ‘iron brothers’

Beijing sanguine over Pakistan leadership change
Apr 22, 2022 (WiC 581)

When pollsters measure international approval levels for China there is one country which consistently takes the number one slot – Pakistan. In the most recent Gallup survey in 2018, 73% of Pakistanis had a positive view of the Beijing ...

Beijing’s Solomon Islands deal irks Canberra
Apr 22, 2022 (WiC 581)

In 1942, a few months after Pearl Harbor was bombed, Allied forces launched a major attack against a Japanese base on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Located some 2,000 kilometres off the northeast coast of Queensland, the ...

Financing a revolution

What does Vanchip’s IPO say about China’s broader chip strategy?
Apr 22, 2022 (WiC 581)

Rarely a week goes by without a mention in the media of China’s bid to become a major player in the world of semiconductors. Such headlines are normally accompanied by an explanation of the yawning gap the country still needs to bridge in order ...

Back in the game

Beijing gives out online game licences again
Apr 22, 2022 (WiC 581)

The gestation period for Chinese gaming licence approvals has at least one similarity with childbirth: Beijing just started granting new ones again after a nine-month freeze. This marks the second time in four years that it has held out for ...

The weight of opinion

Are Chinese starlets more vulnerable to body shaming?
Apr 22, 2022 (WiC 581)

Last week, pop star Selena Gomez was body shamed for having gained some weight after pictures of her most recent public appearance surfaced online. In a now-viral TikTok video, she fired back on the critics: “I'm trying to stay skinny, but I ...

Waiting for the final audit

What do Didi, TuSimple, Arm and TikTok tells us about Sino-US relations?
Apr 8, 2022 (WiC 580)

In September 2014 Facebook hosted a conference at its headquarters to discuss how the tech sectors in China and the US could work more closely together. One of the attendees was Zhang Yiming, the founder of the then two year-old Chinese start-up ...

Doing the dishes

Are dishwashers catching on in Chinese households
Apr 8, 2022 (WiC 580)

Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the first dishwashing machine was invented by a woman, although it wasn’t because she was fed up with doing the dishes. Josephine Cochrane, a wealthy socialite from Illinois, came up with the ...

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