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Issue 535

Road to the future

Internet & Tech, Talking Point Why Xiaomi wants to step up from smartphones to electric vehicles

When Xiaomi was barely a year old we profiled its founder Lei Jun (see WiC124), describing how he dreamed of creating a smartphone brand that imitated ...

Five years in the making...

Corporate Q&A Chinese geopolitics expert assesses the impact of China’s Iran agreement

The signing of a $400 billion accord between China and Iran late last month took much of the diplomatic world by surprise. WiC spoke to geopolitics ...

Screening process

M&A Will South Korea sell MagnaChip to China?

The world’s media has been focused on how the White House is frustrating China’s bid for technological self-sufficiency. But in South Korea all ...

A game changer?

Banking & Finance Huawei bags payment licence, paving way for digital yuan rollout

Mobile payment licences are a relatively scarce resource in China. At present there are 237 in active status, thanks to a drought in new issuance since ...

Playing the game

Internet & Tech The ESPN of eSports eyes a New York listing

How topical is eSports? In China, it has now become a popular backdrop for many TV dramas. First there was Dt.Appledog's Time, an idol series about ...

Fission expedition

Energy & Resources Pakistan fires up Hualong nuclear plant

China’s push in nuclear power reached a new milestone in March when Pakistan was the first foreign country to connect a China-developed nuclear ...

Enough is enough

Economy Hurun sparks a ‘financial freedom’ debate

How much money do you need to be financially independent in China? That’s the question the Shanghai-based Hurun Report tried to answer last ...

Getting a roasting

Entertainment Viewers say Mango TV’s all-female stand-up comedy show lacks laughs

Even though China was late to embrace American-style stand-up comedy, thanks to reality competition series like Rock and Roast, which ...

Sino-File “The risk is that China uses its position in the supply…

Chris Williams, managing director of UK Seabed Resources, on why his firm has plans to deep-sea mine for rare earths in the Pacific. He told The Times ...

And Finally Mask excavation triggers extra-terrestial talk

Little is known about the Shu civilisation that predominated in the area around Chengdu some 3,000 years ago. They left no written records and very few ...