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WiC 392 (Jan 5, 2018)

2018: year of the backlash?

China and the World, Talking Point From Australia to America, nations are pushing back against China’s rise

China’s first bullet trains left Beijing for Tianjin in December 2007 and most domestic media at the time focused on its role serving the capital’s ...

Luring the next Alibaba

Banking & Finance Will HKEx’s rule change attract the listings of Chinese tech giants?

There are 51 blue chips in Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index. The heaviest constituents are Tencent and HSBC, with both shifted to a 10% weighting in the ...

In it for the long haul

Auto Industry Geely’s latest purchase reinforces ambition to be global player

A traditional Chinese proverb advises rich men “let not your wealth be exposed”. Perhaps that is why privacy has become such a concern for ...

Internet & Tech Is Xiaomi boss set to win bet?

Business school students from the 1980s should still remember the “H-Y war”, a popular case study of the bitter rivalry between Honda and Yamaha in ...

China Consumer London retail icon Hamleys open its biggest store globally in Beijing

Like most children, William Hamley had a genuine passion for toys. As he grew up, he realised that toys could be a lucrative business opportunity too, ...

Entertainment Older moviegovers help Feng’s film top New Year box office

Steven Spielberg has become known for crowd-pleasing commercial blockbusters like Indiana Jones and E.T. as well as weighty dramas ...

Internet & Tech LeEco’s founder ordered back to China (and declines)

“I will shoulder all the responsibility for the challenges LeEco is facing now, and will stay accountable for the company’s employees, users, ...

China Consumer Co-founders’ divorce rocks shampoo maker

“The times were against me,” concluded the Qin Dynasty warlord, Xiang Yu, in a ballad he composed on the night he lost control of China. Popularly ...

Meet the MBA chef

China and the World DaDong’s Peking duck woos New York but its state-owned rival struggles

Along with sweet and sour pork, roast Peking duck is one of the most well known of Chinese foods among foreign diners. Less known: more than 70% of the ...

Price of clean air

Entertainment Beijing’s pollution fight fuels gas supply shortage

What do freezing children, a Lycra shortage and arrests for burning coal have in common? The answer: they were all part of China’s drive to meet ...

Competing celebrations

Ask Mei Whose birthday is more important?

Christmas (or Sheng Dan Jie 圣诞节 in Chinese, meaning ‘Holy Birth Festival’) is historically not an important holiday in China. However, with ...

Entertainment Are there too many girl bands in China ?

One dream, nine friends, three core beliefs, one heart. That’s the explanation for how Guangzhou girl band 1931 got its name. But three years on and ...

Planet China 2017 was a breakthrough year for the sharing economy in China.…

2017 was a breakthrough year for the sharing economy in China. Pride of place went to the bike borrowing schemes now featuring in many cities, although ...

Carrie on co-locating

Cartoons Carrie on co-locating

The completion of the Transcontinental Railway in 1869 was the moment America became truly “united”. However, the project had been stalled for more ...

An artificial lead

Sino-File “By 2020, they will have caught up. By 2025, they will…

Eric Schmidt – who will step down as executive chairman of Alphabet this month – predicts China will overtake the US in artificial intelligence in ...

And Finally As China cracks down on Bitcoin, Japan beckons

Satoshi Nakamoto is known to be the pseudonym of the creator, or creators, of Bitcoin, under which name the first papers on the cryptocurrency was ...