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WiC 331 (Jul 1, 2016)
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Beijing’s view on Brexit
China and the World, Talking Point How did China react to the UK’s vote to quit the…

Last October China’s leader Xi Jinping enjoyed an amicable evening with his British counterpart David Cameron, supping ale in the prime minister’s ...

Unite the clans
M&A Tencent swoops for Softbank’s stake in game maker Supercell

In 2013 Softbank struck a deal to buy a 70% stake in the American telco Sprint Nextel for $22 billion. It was Japan’s biggest overseas acquisition ...

Diet plan
Agriculture After M&A spree COFCO plans to get leaner and more profitable

It is hard to escape articles about the European Union right now, so it seems fitting that WiC compares the consequences of China’s farming subsidies ...

Own goal
Internet & Tech Qingdao’s taxi industry strike plays into hands of Didi and Uber

Anyone who lives in London will have at some point felt the impact of a tube strike (the ‘tube’ being the colloquial term for London’s subway ...

Healthy returns
Healthcare Why investors are pouring cash into new private practices set up…

Antagonism towards the medical profession in China seems to be getting more common. The Chinese Medical Doctor Association has estimated that more than ...

Force of nature
Environment Jiangsu’s worst natural disaster in decades kills 98

The Chinese word for tornado is longjuanfeng – or literally, a dragon coil wind. Like many Chinese terms it is poetically accurate, ...

Powder keg politics
China and the World Xi Jinping’s Serbian trip rekindles bitter memories

Mentions of Belgrade will stir different memories from China’s leaders. Before China opened its doors to the wider world in 1978 many of Beijing’s ...

Space invaders
Entertainment Independence Day sequel is the latest Made for China flick from…

Few people know disaster films like Roland Emmerich. The director, who is known for blockbuster epics like Independence Day and The Day After ...

Running on fumes
Society Fresh health scare at schools

In WiC322 we reported on a school in Jiangsu province where students were suffering nosebleeds and bouts of dizziness. The cause was revealed to be ...

Retail realities
China Consumer Walmart sells its Chinese online store

For years there has been a debate about whether Amazon will topple Walmart as the world’s largest retailer, underlining a trend in which consumers ...

Corporate punishment
Planet China Staff at Zhangze Rural Commercial Bank were left feeling a little…

Staff at Zhangze Rural Commercial Bank were left feeling a little sore recently, after a training session resulted in eight employees getting a public ...

Heard at China’s Davos
Sino-File “Our attitude towards the Chinese economy, at present and in the…

Premier Li Keqiang sounds upbeat at the World Economic Forum in Tianjin this week. He said the Chinese economy was not heading for a hard landing but ...

Core challenge
Cartoons Core challenge

If you had asked Apple boss Tim Cook on January 1 to rank the business risks that his firm faced this year, being sued for copying the smartphone ...

Wrong call
And Finally Why a company refuted a bullish analyst report

The film Alice Through The Looking Glass bombed in the US, but did surprisingly well in China where it topped the box office at the beginning ...

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