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Issue 470

Slammed and dunked

China and the World, Talking Point The NBA’s fallout with China comes at a time of trade…

Sport often plays a role whenever there’s a rejigging in Sino-US relations. For instance, in August 1979 the Washington Bullets were the first NBA ...

Fight or flight

Auto Industry China’s electric vehicle brands in a battle to survive subsidy squeeze…

“He was too emotionally invested to not fight for the project until the last,” wrote Wired magazine of Sir James Dyson’s £2.5 billion ($3.15 ...

Rocking the boat

Shipping Tanker rates soar as Cosco hit by US sanctions

“My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil,” explained Jean Paul Getty, one of the wealthiest Americans who ever lived. But the ...

Banking & Finance Frostier times ahead for Chinese IPOs in the US?

When the US began to advocate tariffs to reduce its trade deficit in 2018, many thought it was a classic Donald Trump bargaining chip to get a better ...

A fusion of skills

Energy & Resources China wins another nuclear project in Europe

For British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington the destination mattered less than the path, as it provided a beacon for breakthroughs along the way. This ...

Healthcare Why hyaluronic acid is big business in China

Like a lot of young women, 19 year-old Xiaochen (a pseudonym) wanted a new look before heading back to college. After seeing an ad from a beauty ...

Society A bad week for Facebook

Facebook’s ‘react’ function allows its users to display sad, angry and shocked emoticons. And for the company’s critics in China, they were all ...

Problems with their weight

Rail & Infrastructure Why truckers are heroes for the economy but villains on the…

Initially it was thought to be another example of shoddy construction. But the case of a collapsing bridge in Wuxi – a city in eastern Jiangsu ...

Aviation Is Suzhou going to get its own airport too?

The summer months have been tumultuous ones for China’s airport kingdoms. In the south, passenger numbers have dropped sharply in Hong Kong as scenes ...

Edited out of the picture

Society A studio wants to use AI to remove a controversial actress…

Back in 2007, a court in Shenzhen became embroiled in a bribery scandal. To rid the venue of bad luck, local officials hired a feng shui ...

Planet China Most of us can read at a pace of about 200…

Most of us can read at a pace of about 200 words a minute. Scientific evidence of the merits of speed-reading are generally lacking. Most of the ...

Is it genius or ‘bananas’?

Cartoons Is it genius or ‘bananas’?

It was only a month ago that a life drawing class in southwest China stirred huge attention on social media due to the use of nude models. But now a ...

Sino-File “The Americans seem determined to decouple with China. China has seen…

Banyan Tree boss Ho Kwon-ping tells a Forbes forum in Singapore that the world’s two largest economies will decouple not only in areas of trade and ...

Time to disband

And Finally Why iQiyi’s popular boy band broke up after barely a year…

When British boy band One Direction announced that it would go on an indefinite hiatus, die-hard fans were heartbroken, even when the four members ...