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WiC 306 (Dec 4, 2015)

A billion bums-on-seats

China Consumer, Talking Point China’s cinema industry is booming – but who are the winners?

In early 1942 the producer Hal B Wallis bought the film rights to a play set in Morocco. He initially assigned the brothers Julius and Philip Epstein ...

Chinese Character An elite banker steps down after a turbulent summer

On the afternoon of October 24, 1929 – now known as “Black Thursday” – five of the most influential bankers in the United States gathered at ...

Food for thought

Internet & Tech China turns to cloned cattle to keep up with food demand

In Noah’s Ark the animals were reputed to have gone in two-by-two. Now China’s first commercial cloning company, Boyalife, is planning to bring ...

Fit for purpose?

Economy What are SOEs for exactly, asks China-based banker Peter Fuhrman

His was a deceptively simple question. “What exactly is the purpose of a Chinese SOE?” I had just finished speaking to the Asian management ...

China reacts to downed jet

China and the World More Chinese sympathy for Putin in standoff with Ankara

What are the chances of Holland’s consulate-general in Istanbul becoming a Chinese internet sensation? Until a few days ago virtually zero, WiC ...

Rise of the RMB Chinese yuan gets elite status from IMF

This week shareholders at the International Monetary Fund voted to include the yuan, also known as the renminbi, as the fifth currency in the IMF’s ...

Society Admiration for Beijing bridge, countered by crisis response

How is it that China can put up a new bridge in 43 hours but take 15 hours to get a gravely ill man from Beijing Capital Airport to a downtown ...

The Martian conquest

Entertainment Ridley Scott movie becomes latest moneymaker with a pro-China storyline

China’s space programme has made remarkable advances in a short period of time – in fact, the China National Space Agency wants to have a ...

Planet China In WiC168 we posed the question: will Guiyang be China’s next…

In WiC168 we posed the question: will Guiyang be China’s next real estate disaster? The capital of Guizhou had gone on a building binge, leaving it ...

Cartoons Double bogey

Bought by Reignwood (see WiC55 for a profile of the company’s Thai-Chinese founder) for £135 million ($200 million) last year, Wentworth Golf Club ...

Throwing the book at Osborne

Sino-File “We must learn to do economic work from all who know…

The quotation from Chairman Mao that the UK’s Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell used in parliament last week, as he brandished Mao’s Little Red Book ...

And Finally Military buffs told to keep off internet forums

In a message popularly reposted online, a prominent terrorist explains why China is the only country in the world that he will never target. He says ...