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WiC 202 (Jul 19, 2013)

Economy, Talking Point Li Keqiang makes bold push to create a free trade area…

When Deng Xiaoping began the long process of reforming China’s broken economy after three decades of Maoist policies, his boldest idea was to create ...

Banking & Finance Bankers see Alibaba as biggest competitive threat

Jack Ma, founder and chairman of Alibaba, China’s largest e-commerce group, is known to be an outspoken critic of the state-owned banks. That view ...

Environment City of 10 million has chronic flooding problems, largely of its…

The history of modern China – that is to say China as a republic – began in Wuhan. The 1911 uprising in Wuchang – one of three cities later ...

Aviation The past week has produced bad news for Chinese flyers

One wonders if there weren’t a few public relations experts back in 2004 who cautioned Boeing against naming their new passenger jet the ...

In the pipeline

Energy & Resources Oil giant finds funding from insurers

Anyone with doubts about the importance of China National Petroleum Corp should look at the career paths of its former bosses. Earlier this year, ...

Economy Corrupt rail minister is finally sentenced

"A prince who does wrong must be punished like anyone else.” These words of advice from statesman Shang Yang to his ruler Duke Xiao of Qin in the ...

Economy Finance minister puzzles with remark about GDP growth

Chinese finance ministers tend to be an anonymous bunch, and WiC thinks that most of its readers would be hard-pressed to name any of the five last ...

China’s first private oil tycoon

Who’s Hu Gong Jialong

China’s economy has produced thousands of tycoons, many of whom have trodden a potentially dangerous path in challenging the state’s dominance in ...

Guo’s not so ‘tiny’ success

Entertainment Critics lash latest hit film as inane; but audiences are flocking…

Guo Jingming is no stranger to controversy. A bestselling author and purportedly China’s wealthiest writer, Guo is not always the most popular ...

New balls, please

Cross Strait How a tennis victory led to a cross-strait row

We’ve mentioned ping-pong diplomacy a few times before, following a celebrated tour in the early 1970s when Mao Zedong invited the American table ...

Zhuge Liang’s favourite snack

Fast Food Jianbing

Jianbing is a traditional snack meal often eaten for breakfast. A crepe made from a batter of wheat and grain flour, it is fried on a griddle ...

Planet China The late Robert Ripley, founder of the ‘Ripley’s Believe It or…

The late Robert Ripley, founder of the ‘Ripley’s Believe It or Not!’ franchise, was so drawn to Chinese culture that he once signed his name ...

Thanks for nothing

Cartoons Thanks for nothing

Debbie Stabenow is a bit sensitive about pandering to the Chinese. As we reported in WiC138, her Republican opponent in her Senate re-election campaign ...

Grandfathered law

And Finally Judge orders daughter to visit mum regularly

Been to visit your mum recently? If you are living in mainland China: you could end up with a fine or worse if you haven’t. Or so says Zhou Qiang ...