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Issue 520

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Economy, Talking Point Chinese bond market roiled as issuers miss payments, hurting confidence

The Chinese bond market can trace its roots back to the 19th century, when provincial governments within the Qing empire issued bonds to foreign ...

Rue ye the day?

China Consumer How a century-old Japanese clothier perished under Chinese ownership

It was the HMS Renown that took Prince Edward (later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor) to Japan as part of his goodwill tour around Asia between ...

Media Alibaba buys into a streaming video giant

In Chinese martial arts novels, bi wu zhao qin (比武招亲) was a customary way of helping a woman to find a worthy husband. A father would ...

M&A State Grid mops up more South American assets

For the past two centuries, US foreign policy in Latin America has been guided by the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, when the then president – James ...

‘Fifty shades of green’

Corporate Q&A How Luxembourg is looking to host more sustainable bonds from China

In September Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, pledged that the Chinese would achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. But a huge amount of investment is ...

Auto Industry Huawei makes big push into self-driving cars

When it comes to corporate big mouths, Elon Musk has quite a reputation. Tesla’s chairman is legendary for the kind of verbal indiscretions that ...

Cross Strait Beijing waits for signs of a Biden reset on Taiwan …

Donald Trump’s often confrontational stance towards Beijing has won him fans in Taiwan, including figures in the island’s ruling Democratic ...

Rising up the ranks

Internet & Tech Kuaishou files for Hong Kong IPO

When Jay Chou greeted his fans on a social media account in mainland China in May, there was general astonishment. The surprise came partly because the ...

Coupling in commerce

Internet & Tech Two US tech giants strike new deals in China, despite political…

“The United States does need to get tough with China,” claimed Joe Biden in an article in Foreign Affairs earlier this year. All the same, the new ...

Entertainment War drama hastily withdrawn, as martial arts series also gets panned

The Deer and the Cauldron was the last and most controversial work by the prolific writer Jin Yong (see WiC431 for more on the novelist whose ...

Sino-File “Businesses are signalling that a Biden administration will bring more stability…

Ker Gibbs, president of AmCham Shanghai, added that a recent survey of US companies in China indicated that almost two-thirds were optimistic that ...

To the manor born

And Finally How a French palace symbolises China’s new style of online showing…

Louis XIV – the longest reigning monarch in European history, with more than 72 years on the throne – is remembered as the inspiration for ...