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Issue 483

Sympathy deficit

China and the World, Talking Point Rather than finding common cause in virus crisis, Sino-US relations worsen

Swooping in on a castle’s weak point, robbing the victim of a fire, throwing stones at someone drowning in a well – a range of Chinese proverbs ...

Growth at all costs

Economy For Beijing the battle against Covid-19 is being fought on two…

China’s parliament – consisting of the twin meetings of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and its lesser peer, the Chinese People's Political ...

Shipping The shipping industry hoped for a recovery in 2020 – then…

The shipping news is in – and it’s not very good. Hong Kong-based expert Tim Huxley – the founder of Mandarin Shipping and a long-time WiC ...

Taking a nosedive

Aviation Coronavirus hits Chinese airlines but HNA is suffering the most

Back in 2005, when China’s commercial airline industry was developing rapidly, planes were taking off faster than the country could train new pilots. ...

Real estate worries

Property Property sales take a hit from Covid-19 outbreak

Wuhan now has an image outside China that it must dread but before the coronavirus took hold the capital city of Hubei province was one of the ...

Internet & Tech Blockchain concept stocks surge after Buffett lunch

On January 23 Justin Sun presented Warren Buffett with a number of gifts at Omaha’s Happy Hollow Club. Among them was a book authored by Sun himself, ...

Finally to marry

Auto Industry Geely Automobile plans Volvo merger

The place where the Covid-19 virus originated – a Wuhan seafood market where illegal sales of wild animals also took place – presents an image of ...

Banking & Finance Huishang takes control of the remnants of Tomorrow Group’s failed bank

It’s a problem that long predated the Covid-19 outbreak and its resolution has been in gestation since last May: the restructuring of the troubled ...

Property Should China scrap its mandatory housing fund?

With China’s economy coming to a standstill as it struggles to contain the deadly coronavirus outbreak, smaller companies that lack a cash cushion ...

Just another love story?

Entertainment The most-watched show during the virus period provokes a gender debate

With parts of China still in residential lockdown, people have been looking for creative ways to relieve the tedium. Homemade videos on Douyin (also ...

Olivia’s Cambridge Diary

Society Remembering Joseph Needham

It might seem a cliché to include a diary entry on Joseph Needham in my series on China and Cambridge University. But given how much Needham did to ...

Priority baggage

Sino-File “We have flown parts in suitcases from China to the UK…

One of the emergency measures Jaguar Land Rover has taken, says its CEO Sir Ralf Speth. He told the Financial Times that 38 key components from China ...

More playing time

And Finally The online gaming sector has been a big beneficiary of the…

Unprecedented numbers of players are spending their time on China’s online gaming platforms. The reason – the coronavirus, which is keeping people ...