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WiC 352 (Jan 20, 2017)

The Davos debutant

China and the World, Talking Point As the world waits on Trump, Xi Jinping seizes the spotlight…

Let’s be frank. Speeches by China’s leaders are often given to platitudes rather than political hard truths, and as Xi Jinping made his way to ...

M&A The struggle for control at Vanke may be over

The ‘invisible hand’ of the market is supposed to deliver unintended social benefits. But over the last few months, a more visible force seems to ...

Big data, big brother?

Economy A new rating system for public behaviour starts to spread

Earlier this week a salutary tale appeared on the website of the Jiangxi government. A local man called Chen wanted to buy a high- speed rail ticket to ...

Signature policy

Economy China’s ballpoint pen hailed as breakthrough

In 1958 a movie with the unpromising subject matter of pen manufacturing was released to Chinese audiences. The ideological inspiration for this ...

Rainmaker required

Internet & Tech Baidu hopes for boom in cloud storage sales

Earlier this month the annual results of China’s national campaign to “eradicate pornography and illegal publications” showed that over 1,300 ...

Money for nothing

Entertainment Audiences debate the sky-high wages of TV actors

In Hollywood, good looks don’t always work to one’s advantage. Take the genetically blessed Charlize Theron. In an interview with British GQ, she ...

Breaking new ground

M&A China's self-styled "White Knight" rides in to save LeEco

“Know the enemy and know yourself,” advised Sun-tzu in his classic text The Art of War. Follow this maxim and “in a hundred battles ...

Penfolds protected

China Consumer Australian wine heavyweight wins squatter case

Aussie wine producer Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) raised a glass earlier this month when the Beijing High People’s Court ruled in its favour in a row ...

Here comes the Batmobile

Telecoms The red phone is flashing at China Unicom as top tech…

Is that Police Commissioner Gordon asking for Batman’s help to save Gotham City? Or is it the Organisation Department of the Communist Party of China ...

Quite a character

Society Father of Pinyin dies aged 111

When was Peking renamed Beijing, Chungking replaced by Chongqing, and Mao Tse-Tung became Mao Zedong? The simple answer is 1958 when a man called ...

Pottery imposters

Planet China Imagine travelling all the way to Paris and being shown a…

Imagine travelling all the way to Paris and being shown a dodgy copy of the Mona Lisa; or going to Rome and ending up in a knock-off version of the ...

Thanks for coming

Sino-File “The world is now in a multipolar geopolitical and economic structure,…

Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum in Davos, tells the China Daily that Xi Jinping’s appearance at the forum leads him to “foresee ...

Costa how much…?

Cartoons Costa how much…?

The Chinese Super League continues to make headlines in the UK press, with the tabloids particularly excited in the past week about news that ...

And Finally Shanxi scores with a cock that looks like Trump

Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province, erected a new statue last month to mark the forthcoming Year of the Rooster. But it’s also a tribute to ...