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WiC 310 (Jan 22, 2016)

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Talking Point, Telecoms Does Unicom and China Telecom pact signal a full-blown mega-merger?

At the heart of Beijing’s commercial district is Financial Street and there you will find – aside from investment banks – the glass-and-steel ...

Investor Q&A Independent economist predicts banking crisis in China

Shanghai-based Jonathan Anderson has been described by the Financial Times as “one of the most thoughtful China analysts”. In recent years he has ...

M&A Whirlpool targets washers made in China, as Haier moves for GE…

“The washing machine has changed the world more than the internet has”. That’s one of the bolder claims in Ha-Joon Chang’s 23 Things They ...

Cross Strait Mainland reacts to Taiwan’s elections

The last time that Taiwan’s independence-minded Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won a presidential election, it took an assassination attempt to ...

China and the World Xi’s tour of the Middle East takes in two of the…

One of the most acclaimed history books of 2015 was Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads. In it he tries to show how our understanding of global ...

Economy Unemployment to prove a headache as China tackles overcapacity

Li Keqiang has clearly never watched many zombie movies. Earlier this month the Chinese premier suggested “zombie firms” should take the courageous ...

Society Why a veteran vocalist is suddenly Taiwan’s most controversial man

The 1993 TV drama Bao Qing Tian is arguably Taiwan’s most successful cultural export to mainland China. The crime thriller, which tells the ...

Banking & Finance Wholesale shake-up looms for financial regulators

The most high profile sacking of 2015 was probably of football coach Jose Mourinho. He was axed as Chelsea manager last month, and during a trip to ...

Banking & Finance GDP contracts in dollar terms

China said this week its economy grew 6.9% last year, the slowest rate since 1990. The data looks even grimmer when you analyse China’s GDP ...

Economy Unwelcome headlines for Metersbonwe’s boss

As anyone who has seen the 2006 film The Prestige will know, every good disappearing act has three parts: the pledge, the turn and the titular ...

M&A Another Hollywood swoop as Wanda buys American studio

Legendary Pictures made its name bringing the dinosaurs of Jurassic World and the monsters of Godzilla to the big screen. Now Wang ...

Society LeTV’s hugely popular drama gets pulled by the censors

At first glance, Go Princess Go doesn’t seem like it has the potential to be a hit. Nor does it seem like the sort of controversial fare ...

Planet China Chinese media reckoned it was “a new China record” although it…

Chinese media reckoned it was “a new China record” although it might be impossible to verify that. The feat in question: a man surnamed Qiu had sex ...

Cartoons The driving force

There are many business risks companies face in China. In Uber’s case its executives face an existential threat: can it even operate there? The ...

Sino-File “[Pundits have often warned of a Chinese economic disaster] but China…

Japanese leader Abe Shinzo tells the Financial Times that China’s growth remains “very solid”. South Korea’s finance minister also said this ...

And Finally International brands try to cash in on Chinese New Year

When Pepsi entered the Chinese market in 1981, it did so with the slogan “Come alive with Pepsi”. Or so was the intention. The translation the ...

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