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WiC 358 (Mar 17, 2017)

Talking Point, Telecoms ZTE’s record penalty in the US draws muted response in China

“If people know you have the big bazooka, you probably don’t have to use it,” Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce in the Trump administration, ...

A vehicle for domination

Internet & Tech Will China rely on US technology giants for driverless cars and…

What might you get by crossing BB-8 with Xavier? The answer isn’t a mash-up between characters from Star Wars and X-Men, but a ...

Chinese Models How did Oppo become China’s top smartphone maker

For a long time, Xiaomi shunned advertising, saying that by cuting the spending on commercials, it could pass those savings down to consumers by ...

Closing credits

M&A Wanda drops latest deal; capital controls blamed

Hollywood is a place where dreams are supposed to come true. But that’s no longer the case, it seems, for one of China’s richest men, Wang ...

Banking & Finance We profile Oriza – the pre-IPO investment firm behind SF Express

SF Express is known as an express courier but since its backdoor listing on the Shenzhen stock exchange last month, it has been delivering something ...

Rail & Infrastructure Beijing’s new Pearl River Delta plan announced

China has been working to connect itself to the world with infrastructure projects. No state firm has looked better positioned in this regard than ...

Economy Jack Ma back in headlines over counterfeits

In the struggle to defend Shangganling Mountain in 1952, two Chinese soldiers sacrificed themselves in the battle to hold off the American forces. One ...

A tale of two smelters

Energy & Resources Short-sellers question Hongqiao’s vastly superior performance to Chalco

Aluminum Corp of China (Chalco) is one of the worst-performing state firms of recent times. Over the five financial years between 2011 and 2015, it ran ...

Entertainment TV drama proves a sensation – it has been watched 30…

She may have first become famous as an actress, but more recently, Yang Mi has become better known as the “Goddess of the New Third Board”, an ...

Red Star China's foremost female bodybuilder

Mao Zedong famously espoused, “Women hold up half the sky”. But perhaps Mou Cong has the muscle to take on the burden all by herself. Earlier this ...

Society Beijing clears out unwanted residents to reduce population

For eight years Chen Zhongshen has run a small, inexpensive restaurant on the ground floor of a residential building in east Beijing. She sells ...

Collective bargain

Planet China South Korea’s Jeju is usually a hotspot for Chinese tourists. But…

South Korea’s Jeju is usually a hotspot for Chinese tourists. But when the Costa Serena cruise ship docked at the resort island this month, all of ...

Sino-File “Last year we delivered 65,246 units and China once again became…

Franz Jung sounds a bullish note to China Daily. The CEO of Porsche China said the German luxury car firm has 96 Porsche Centres in the country and ...

Flying to the promised land

Cartoons Flying to the promised land

In the past few years WiC has repeatedly commented on the growing trade and investment ties between China and Israel. First there was the acquisition ...

And Finally China’s primary school sex-ed textbook stokes debate

The Chinese government wants people to have more children (two per family, to be precise). So perhaps now is a good time to improve its record on sex ...