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WiC 197 (Jun 14, 2013)

Hitting the bottle

China and the World, Talking Point France in the firing line as winemakers are drawn into solar…

Who would want to be Karel De Gucht right now, a man under attack from all sides in the row with China on solar panel tariffs?

Certainly few would ...

China and the World Will Xi trip to Mexico boost drink’s China sales?

Reminiscing to WiC about his time spent in China, an American businessman recalled one incident in the early 1990s. Keen to build better relations with ...

Don’t bank on it

Banking & Finance Another blow to VIE investors, as Chinachem loses Minsheng case

Foreign investors have often proved adept at exploiting regulatory loopholes in China, particularly in circumventing government restrictions on what ...

Top of the class?

Economy Graduate unemployment worries Chinese leaders

Jane Huang, a 23 year-old accountancy student from Guangxi, has two groups of friends. Both are graduating at the same time as her this month. The ...

Taking it personal

Rise of the RMB Yiwu pilots yuan scheme for small businesses

A trip to Yiwu can be a bewildering affair. When a British newspaper visited the world’s largest wholesale market a few months ago, it met a British ...

Wake up and smell the copy

Internet & Tech China’s ambitions in 3D printing are huge. Some predict trouble ahead

American law student Cody Wilson has made things more difficult for the 3D printing industry. That’s after the gun enthusiast used the new technology ...

The flower of war?

Red Star Ni Ni

Born in Nanjing, Ni Ni graduated from the Communication University of China, specialising in television broadcasting and hosting. She was also an avid ...

Women at the top

Society Daughters of billionaires are being groomed to take over business empires

In her book Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg confronts a conundrum. If women ...

Society Questions at grain giant after blaze mirrors historical case

In 1735 the Emperor Qianlong ordered a national audit of his grain reserves. One of his largest granaries then burnt to the ground before his audit ...

The violent pensioner

World of Weibo The violent pensioner

“Promptly delete harmful contents that are speculative, provocative or accusatory in nature. Every malicious or sensationalising weibo account must ...

Planet China Editors at China’s state media rarely apologise for their mistakes. For…

Editors at China’s state media rarely apologise for their mistakes. For example, late last year the People’s Daily blooped by taking seriously ...

First lady to ditch iPhone?

Cartoons First lady to ditch iPhone?

The first order of business for Peng Liyuan on returning to China might be to trade in her iPhone 5 for a Huawei model. In Mexico, China’s first lady ...

No ties, but no Michelle too

And Finally Netizens wonder why Obama was solo at G2 summit

Formal, scripted and wooden: with a few exceptions, this has been standard protocol for meetings between US and Chinese leaders in the past. So it ...