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WiC 343 (Oct 21, 2016)

The pivot to Beijing?

China and the World, Talking Point Why Duterte’s Beijing tour is being watched carefully by Washington

“I announce my separation from the United States, both in military but economics also,” Rodrigo Duterte told a group of businessmen yesterday ...

Telecoms Samsung has galactic problems in China

Samsung Electronic’s exploding phones have been generating heat in more ways than one in China, where the company has been on the receiving end of a ...

Pass the parcel

Banking & Finance China’s latest debt-for-equity swap scheme has its sceptics

For nearly a week in the summer of 1999, senior officials from thousands of state firms queued up at the State Economic and Trade Commission’s main ...

Rocketing ambitions

Space Programme What is the significance of China’s latest manned space mission?

China is making no secret of the fact that it wants to be a space superpower. It has even set a date for achieving that goal:2030. By then it hopes ...

Auto Industry Is SAIC’s runaway advertising budget worth it?

Don Draper would love China’s largest carmaker, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SAIC). In the first half of the year it devoted Rmb4.74 billion ...

Roadblock ahead

Internet & Tech New city-level proposals could stall Didi’s business plans

When academics in China contest the efficacy of Western democracy, they often cite the efficiency of the Chinese method for implementing reforms. But ...

Who’s Hu Mao's grandson-in-law

Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution saw much of China’s heritage destroyed. His grandson-in-law Chen Dongsheng has shown he’s far keener on ...

Society Celebrated Chinese scientist under question

There was a time when China was the most scientifically advanced society in the world, pioneering new inventions like the compass, gunpowder and the ...

Agriculture Challenges ahead as China tries to reduce its corn reserves

The introduction of corn to Chinese farms is said to have been one of the factors that helped take the country’s population past 100 million during ...

World of Weibo Wall of shame

The Washington Bullets was the first professional sports team from America to visit the People’s Republic of China. The 1979 trip came just months ...

Voting for Donald

Ask Mei Why my Chinese friends prefer Donald Trump

With the US presidential election campaign entering its final stretch, I conducted an informal survey this week among my Chinese friends who reside in ...

New playing field

China Consumer Playdale, a Lake District-based playground maker, grows rapidly in China

When most people think of the Lake District, it conjures up images of what is arguably England’s most stunning scenery (it inspired, after all, the ...

Popular propaganda

Entertainment A movie made by public security ministry proves a surprise box…

The latest remake of the Ben Hur epic proved such a disaster that interest was limited even in China, where big-budget Hollywood fare ...

Lightbulb moment

Planet China In a small village, how do you stop people from stealing…

In a small village, how do you stop people from stealing electricity? Smart money would say you search for the power lines that are bypassing the mains ...

Swedish meet halls

Cartoons Swedish meet halls

“Hej!” is the traditional greeting for visitors to IKEA stores, but in Shanghai one group of longstanding customers has found themselves rather ...

Not voting for Donald

Sino-File “Donald Trump, with his anti-China rhetoric and his anti-trade rhetoric, is…

Hank Paulson, former Treasury Secretary and a Republican, told the South China Morning Post this week that he did not believe Trump would be elected ...

Game oft thrown

And Finally Furore over yet another fixed soccer match

It has not been a good fortnight for China’s national football team. Its chances of qualifying for the World Cup look all but over after a 2-0 defeat ...