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Issue 525

Exit the disrupter-in-chief

China and the World, Talking Point As Trump’s presidency ends, his impact on Sino-US relations will be…

Losing contestants on The Apprentice, the reality series that helped to catapult Donald Trump into the race for the White House, were booted ...

Will the shoe fit?

M&A Li Ning takes control of UK shoemaker Clarks

The fashion industry is filled with comeback stories. Mom jeans, tie-dye clothes and bum bags (or fanny packs, in US parlance) have all made a return ...

China Consumer Fitness firms limber up in online workout boom

Peloton is one of an elite group of companies that has profited from the pandemic. Fuelled by demand from exercise buffs looking for safer alternatives ...

Filled with fury

China Consumer Locals unimpressed by McDonald’s ‘China burger’

Despite its reputation for standardising its menu across a limited range of its most popular choices, McDonald’s has sometimes experimented with new ...

Fighting the flab

China Consumer An introduction to the brands driving China’s ‘meal replacement’ vogue

To impart the impression that leafy greens packed in cute, see-through bottles could keep consumers in shape, a Chinese food start-up called Sweetie ...

Pork-barrel politics

Agriculture What do semiconductors and pig farming have in common?

Talk of the need for self-sufficiency in China’s economy has centred on semiconductors, where an embargo on sales of key components from American ...

Banking & Finance Two IPOs that underscore China’s ‘consumption upgrade’ trend continues

The debate about whether Chinese consumers are upgrading or downgrading their lifestyles is a never-ending one (see WiC515). The nearly 4% contraction ...

Wang’s long view

Media & Gaming A 30 year-old book forecasts American decline

A month after it was announced that Wang Huning would become one of the seven most senior officials in the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2017, we ...

A tale of two sisters

Entertainment The very different lives led by the daughters of Huawei’s founder

Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou hasn’t set foot in China since 2018. Instead the daughter of Huawei boss Ren Zhengfei remains holed up in Vancouver, under ...

Society Soccer clubs ordered to drop company owners’ names

A decade ago, the property developer Evergrande spent Rmb100 million ($15.4 million) on the takeover of a football club in Guangzhou that had been ...

O’Neill speaks out

Sino-File “If you want to lecture China about the way they live…

Jim O’Neill discusses worsening Sino-British ties with newspaper The Times. A former Treasury Minister during the so-called Golden Era of relations ...

And Finally ‘Edgy’ television ad backfires on cleanser brand

Hallmarks of beauty in much of Chinese society typically include V-shaped jaws, double eyelids and pale white skin. Another sign of the times is the ...