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WiC 165 (Sep 21, 2012)

China and the World, Talking Point Why Sino-Japanese relations are at their lowest point since 1945

Thucydides wrote that the “great sources of war” are money, fear and honour. At the time he was seeking to explain the rivalry between Athens ...

China Consumer Why China’s luxury consumer is moving away from bling and logos

The British fashion brand Paul Smith is known for its whimsical take on traditional Saville Row tailoring. But it was the capricious nature of Chinese ...

Auto Industry Industry expert discusses challenges facing China carmakers

"It’s like opium. Once you’ve had it you will get addicted forever,” ruminated He Guangyuan, a former machinery and industry minister, earlier ...

Telecoms The iPhone 5 receives muted response in China

A day after Apple unveiled its iPhone 5, one diehard fan in Shanghai was already queueing up to buy it outside one of the company’s stores in the ...

China and the World Dairy land is off-limits but New Zealand’s fine with selling Fisher…

There aren’t many white goods companies capable of evoking a serious dose of nostalgia. But Liam Dann, business editor at the New Zealand Herald, ...

Internet & Tech Alibaba’s empire expands into finance industry

While the Democratic National Convention grabbed most of the headlines earlier this month, there was another convention going on in Hangzhou also ...

Entertainment The most delayed film in Chinese cinema history (finally) hits screens

Good things, it is commonly said, come to those who wait. But that doesn’t seem to have been the case for the movie White Deer Plain. The ...

Sport Even more humiliation for China’s soccer team

It’s taken the Chinese football team a long time to score in a match against Brazil. They’ve finally done it, although that first-ever goal ended ...

Red Star Meng Guangmei

Meng Guangmei got her start as a model in Taiwan, becoming the first Taiwanese model to appear at Milan Fashion Week. She soon moved on to acting, ...

History Lessons Absent leaders

The mysterious disappearance earlier this month of Xi Jinping, heir presumptive to the Chinese presidency, puzzled China’s chattering classes and ...

Planet China If you ran the worst performing division in a US or…

If you ran the worst performing division in a US or European company, you might expect to get a visit from management consultants. More than likely, ...

And Finally Brewers are disappointed that people didn’t drink more during Olympics

Twenty years ago the Chinese were light beer drinkers, quaffing an average of just 12 pints a year. By 2001 consumption was up to 32 pints and last ...