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WiC 366 (May 19, 2017)

Silky persuasion

Belt and Road, Economy, Talking Point Differing media views as delegates meet for Xi Jinping’s signature summit

Hong Kong may soon get its own offshoot but the first permanent ‘branch’ of Beijing’s Palace Museum was opened on Xiamen’s Gulangyu island last ...

Third-tier targets

China Consumer How to entice consumers in rural China?

Many mall operators attract shoppers by placing large retailers as anchor tenants on the ground floor. Wanda Group has a different strategy in Bengbu, ...

Koch’s grand vision

China and the World Sports diplomacy on display as Aussie Rules Football debuts in Shanghai

“Excuse me, but what’s a ‘behind’?” asked the Chinese student sitting next to WiC’s man at the first-of-its-kind clash in the Australian ...

Telecoms Short-seller attacks key iPhone supplier

Batman almost never makes a mistake as the caped crusader who fights crime in Gotham City. Back in the real world, Daniel Yu, the Asian-American behind ...

Banking & Finance New regulator storms the banking sector

The Chinese government doesn’t approve of nicknames when referring to the leaders of other countries. In November when Pyongyang asked Beijing to ...

M&A Slow progress for ‘Mixed ownership’ reforms

When China Unicom’s Shanghai-listed shares were suspended on April 5, the company said that details of a restructuring were “imminent”. Six weeks ...

Beefing up US exports?

Economy Trump declares victory in first round of trade talks with the…

America’s commander-in-chief isn’t averse to celebrating his personal achievements and his administration last week billed a new trade deal with ...

Great Wall of culture

Internet & Tech China’s new online encyclopaedia wants to dethrone Wikipedia

Starting out in Edinburgh in 1768, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is the world’s oldest English-language encyclopaedia still in production. But there ...

Internet & Tech Will shared phone chargers be the next big thing in China?

It’s hard to predict which new products will take off and which will flop. The Segway was launched in 2001 to much media interest, but quickly became ...

Wrestling with success

Entertainment Chinese filmgoers lament that local films aren’t as good as India’s…

From the 1950s to the 1980s Bollywood films were popular in China. Audiences liked the music and the dancing, while the government liked the relatively ...

Virgin territory

Entertainment Shanghai ‘Sex and the City’ accused of crudeness

As mysteriously as it was yanked from the television schedules in the first place, White Deer Plain made its way back to the small screen last ...

Put out to pasture

Planet China The author Daniel Bell told the Financial Times recently how the…

The author Daniel Bell told the Financial Times recently how the Chinese authorities have combated drink driving. “Alarmed by data that showed 20% of ...

Sino-File “When I am with him he’s a great guy… I think…

President Donald Trump tells The Economist about his relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. He noted that Xi told him about China’s “8,000 ...

Supermarket sweep

Cartoons Supermarket sweep

American politics is agog at allegations that Donald Trump has shared classified information with the Russians. Over in China the spying scandal of the ...

And Finally The latest boom: Chinese patients seeking treatment overseas

China’s strict family planning laws ban unmarried women from using fertility treatment. This rule became the subject of heated discussion in 2015 ...