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WiC 318 (Apr 1, 2016)

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China and the World, Talking Point How The Donald’s presidential bid is going down in China

In the 1995 Hollywood flick The American President Michael Douglas, who plays the commander-in-chief, finds his love interest under attack ...

M&A Why air-con giant Gree’s invested in a carmaker

Fortune magazine rates her as the most powerful woman in China. So it was perhaps not very surprising that Dong Mingzhu decided to blaze a trail for ...

Healthcare Vaccine scandal spooks confidence in Chinese healthcare

If Google was around in the eighteenth century a search for ‘inoculation’ and ‘Shandong’ would have yielded the name Zhang Yan, an energetic ...

China and the World China’s suspicions about America’s softer approach towards Havana

When President Coolidge travelled to Cuba in 1928, it was his first state visit. At the time America was enduring its Prohibition thirst, and a loaded ...

Internet & Tech Chinese tech firms are looking to ride on Indian growth

China once held a monopoly on what was then the world’s most valuable commodity: tea. The fragrant leaves of China found a hugely receptive market in ...

Aviation Another Chinese bid for a German airport

Some sommeliers say that German wines are the perfect accompaniment for spicy Chinese food, with the sweetness of a Mosel Riesling providing just the ...

Editor's Letters, Others Despite the gloom, China’s economy is still growing every year

Today is April Fools’ Day, when newspapers often publish hoax stories. Longtime readers of WiC will recall that we took the opportunity to publish an ...

China Consumer Delivery Hero pulls out of China amid cut-throat competition

What makes a hero? Is it the will to persevere and triumph against the odds, or the humility to recognise when you’ve met your match and should step ...

Entertainment Korean TV series makes big money in China but sparks ‘safety…

A 20 year-old woman surnamed Li was said to be so obsessed with Song Joong-ki, the actor starring in the South Korean TV series Descendants of the ...

Society Why suicides are on the rise among the rural elderly

As frequent WiC readers will know, amongst the core concepts of Confucianism, perhaps none is more important than the notion of filial piety. This ...

Red Star What's in a name?

In The Currency War, Chinese writer Song Hongbing claims the Rothschild banking dynasty has orchestrated pretty much every historical event ...

Who’s Hu Anbang Insurance

In Chinese the term for crony capitalism translates literally as ‘skirt-band capitalism’. And tying the knot with the right woman, according to the ...

Planet China When couples marry, new brides usually leave their home to move…

When couples marry, new brides usually leave their home to move in with their husbands. What is less common, however, is to have a letting agency make ...

Sino-File “We can cope with the slowdown in China. China felt worse…

Alexander Hinterkopf, boss of German Mittelstand firm Hinterkopf, tells the Financial Times that his digital printer firm is surviving China’s slower ...

Cartoons Taking the Mickey

Crashing computer systems rarely please their owners, but Disney may view its own experience more optimistically. Its Chinese online ticketing service ...

And Finally ‘Skinny’ craze takes over social media, with “iPhone legs” the latest…

A piece of A4 paper is 29.7cm long and 21cm wide, while an iPhone 6 is 13.8cm by 6.7cm. That a piece of A4 might be compared to an adult’s waist ...