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WiC 393 (Jan 12, 2018)

Quotations from Mao

Chinese Character, Talking Point Why the Yabuli ski resort has become the hottest topic among…

Situated at 1,000 metres above the sea and frozen in heavy snow for more than 100 days a year, Yabuli was, till relatively recently, one of the least ...

Eye on the money

Healthcare A Tencent-backed Hong Kong eye clinic becomes city’s hottest IPO for…

Thanks to the rapidly increasing demands of mainland Chinese patients, these have been heady times for Hong Kong’s private healthcare sector. But the ...

A crisis waiting to happen?

China and the World Author discusses the potential trouble ahead for Sino-Japanese relations

From the earliest editions of WiC (see issue 14) we have argued that one of the most volatile and potentially dangerous relationships the world faces ...

Banking & Finance Another lapsed acquisition points to HNA Group’s ongoing liquidity woes

“Be honest and straightforward.” It is one of the pledges every new employee has to sign up to when they join Value Partners, an asset manager ...

M&A Why Jack Ma’s Moneygram bid was rejected?

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,” is the famed opening to ...

New lease of life

Property Why property majors are rapidly turning themselves into landlords

When Shenzhen developer Shum Yip first purchased the land Sky Park now sits on, it envisaged a high-end residential development that would be anchored ...

Healthcare BGI founder’s vaccine comment spooks outcry

Prevention, detection, treatment. Over the centuries that has become the gold standard for controlling disease. But last month Wang Jian, the head ...

Space Programme Dockless bikes to help drive China’s satellite navigation system’s ascent

Cinema’s most famous encounter between the skies and a bike took place 36 years ago in Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster movie E.T. In a ...

Entertainment An alleged affair sees a top rapper pilloried by state media…

The divorce between actor Wang Baoqiang and his wife was arguably the biggest celebrity scandal to grip China in 2016. For much of last year nothing ...

The perfect thief

Planet China The last time a cat burglar got so much public sympathy…

The last time a cat burglar got so much public sympathy was when Cary Grant played one in Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief. In that movie, of ...

Two-way boulevard

Sino-File “The ancient Silk Roads were never only Chinese”

President Emmanuel Macron (see also Photo of the Week on Back Page) elaborates on his counterpart Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative during a ...

Mahjong’s losing the phoney war

Cartoons Mahjong’s losing the phoney war

Think of England and to many it will conjure up images of warm ale and a game of cricket on a village green. Turn to China and an equivalent image ...

And Finally How does Xi Jinping fare in Wolff’s Trump book?

It will likely be the most controversial political book of the year – and we are not even a fortnight into 2018. But what does Michael Wolff’s ...