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WiC 297 (Sep 25, 2015)

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Entertainment, Talking Point America’s big movie studios are clamouring for China deals

We are not enemies, but friends… The mystic chords of memory… will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, ...

Energy & Resources Struggling Wisco seeks to reassign workers

When Margaret Thatcher died in April 2013, many blue-collar workers living in Britain’s former industrial heartlands celebrated the demise of a woman ...

China and the World Osborne tours China, promising a “golden decade”

In 2010 a 100-part radio programme caused a stir in Britain. Co-conceived by the BBC and the British Museum, A History of the World in 100 ...

Property As Asia’s richest man exits China, a backlash emerges from official media

Back in late January we featured a cover image of Li Ka-shing standing at a crossroads, peering towards Europe, while other investors looked towards ...

China and the World What can China expect from the new Australian Prime Minister?

Six years and four prime ministers ago Kevin Rudd was serving his first term as leader of Australia’s presiding Labor Party. During that time he ...

Aviation Another big order for Boeing, as Comac counts the cost of…

As Chinese president Xi Jinping took a tour of the Boeing factory in Everett, Washington on Wednesday he may have been dreaming of the day when China ...

Banking & Finance Can Fosun grow its investment division to over $100 billion?

Romeo famously wooed Juliet by whispering sweet poetry to her as she leant over the balcony of her family home in Verona. Further north in Frankfurt ...

Banking & Finance Wudaokou old boys in stock market probe

You may not have heard of the Wudaokou School of Finance. It’s an elite graduate school – now part of Tsinghua University – that was originally ...

Society The one-child policy turns 35

Thirty-five years ago today China’s ruling Communist Party published an open letter in the People’s Daily announcing the start of the one-child ...

Entertainment For Hollywood movie promoters, China’s Graham Norton is Betty Zhou

One reason Tom Cruise gives for why he loves to appear on the irreverent, vastly popular British TV programme The Graham Norton Show is the ...

Internet & Tech Dell’s strategy in China: work with Beijing

In Chinese mythology, the qilin, a chimerical beast, is seen as a fortuitous omen. The animal is rumoured to appear only during the reign of ...

Planet China It is not known how many thousands of years ago the…

It is not known how many thousands of years ago the first Chinese subject kowtowed before his emperor, but the word itself describes the act: literally ...

Cartoons Apple to experience fertile sales

When Apple first released the iPhone in June 2007 the company obviously hoped it would prove an alluring product. But Jonathan Ive and his co-designers ...

Sino-File “In my view, this is a necessary and important step to…

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, speaks to the media about a controversial proposal to bring 20,000 Chinese construction workers into the ...

And Finally Why Chinese love to lunch with Sage of Omaha

The idea that anyone would emerge from a private lunch with Warren Buffett as a world-beating investor is a bizarre one. It’s a bit like saying that ...

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