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WiC 347 (Nov 25, 2016)

Disagreeing with Dong

Economy, Talking Point Powerful boss demoted as state shareholders block bid for Yinlong

With Midea taking over the German robot maker Kuka and GE Appliances now a unit of Haier, China’s white goods firms have become a major force in the ...

China and the World President-elect wins a Chinese trademark ruling

As he began his march towards the White House, Donald Trump rallied his supporters around a number of common enemies, but none were bigger than China. ...

Internet & Tech The downside to China’s e-commerce revolution: colossal packaging waste

Thirteen minutes and nineteen seconds. That’s how long it took for the first parcel to reach its destination on Singles’ Day earlier this ...

Banking & Finance UnionPay cracks down on capital flight through the insurance market

Visitors to Hong Kong from mainland China used to line up in the shopping districts in their hundreds, desperate to get their hands on luxury handbags. ...

The redback retreats

Rise of the RMB Trump’s election victory is triggering a slide in the yuan

When Donald Trump hit the campaign trail hard last summer, he spent a few moments at one of his rallies refuting the notion that he wasn’t keen on ...

Society Badminton star blunders with costly liaison

The love story between badminton champions Lin Dan and Xie Xingfang is well known in China. When he was only 14, Lin noticed a tall and slender girl at ...

Hail the kung-fu king

Society Jackie Chan has just got an Oscar. But why is he…

In 1980 Jackie Chan first attempted to break into Hollywood with The Big Brawl. But the Hong Kong star found it hard to adapt his martial arts ...

Full-speed ahead

Entertainment Lee Ang's Iraq War-inspired film has a better reception in China

Lee Ang’s new film Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk was controversial even before it was released. The movie tells the story of a young ...

Dual horsepower

Auto Industry Why Volkswagen wants an additional Chinese partner for Audi

Back in 1984, it would have been easy to understand why SAIC Motor Corp was dubious about the sales prospects for Audi. At that point, only 3.2 Chinese ...

Which Chinese poems has Trump’s granddaughter been reciting?

Ask Mei Little ambassador

Since Donald Trump’s surprise win in the US presidential election, China’s social media has been even busier discussing America’s ...

Planet China This year’s Paralympic Games were dominated by the Chinese team, which…

This year’s Paralympic Games were dominated by the Chinese team, which scooped 107 gold medals – almost double its nearest rival, Great Britain. ...

Big shoes to fill

Sino-File “We like the US being in the region. But if the…

New Zealand leader John Key, speaking at the APEC summit in Peru, warning that allowing the TPP trade pact to perish would only open the door for China ...

Mahjong masters

Cartoons Mahjong masters

There’s something embarrassing about losing a game on your home ground. So it must have been particularly humbling when the world’s first ...

And Finally Hong Kong’s young musicians win over Beijing

Is everything in Hong Kong now political? That’s what was being asked last week after the Chinese Communist Party’s Youth League started writing ...