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WiC 399 (Mar 2, 2018)

Losing his cover

Banking & Finance, Talking Point Wu Xiaohui to be charged as insurer Anbang is taken under…

About 20 years ago, amid the bursting of an asset bubble, the Japanese government injected a huge amount of taxpayer money into a slew of troubled ...

Shock in Stuttgart

Auto Industry Geely swoops on Daimler, securing major stake

“Western wind, Northern tide, when will the worship of foreign might end? Chinese cars, flying high, becoming giant eagles in ...

M&A Baidu exits food delivery to focus on AI

To show that it’s at the forefront of artificial intelligence, Baidu found a new way to incorporate its AI technology into its Chinese New Year ...

Here for the long run

Economy As anticipated, Xi Jinping won’t have to step down as president

“To build the fate of a country on the renown of one or two people is very unhealthy and very dangerous.” So said Deng Xiaoping in 1989, although ...

Local difficulties

Energy & Resources Shaanxi-based SOE energy producers at loggerheads over drilling rights

After overthrowing the Ming Dynasty in the seventeenth century, the new Manchurian rulers seized large amounts of land around Beijing for nobles and ...

China and the World Former president predicts trouble in the Maldives

The prognosis for the Maldives over the next few decades isn’t terrific. If global warming doesn’t see its low-lying archipelago submerged by ...

Who’s Hu China’s high-end tailor

Last September Gieves & Hawkes hosted “The Invention of the British Gentleman” exhibition in Hong Kong. Thousands of shoppers got a glimpse of ...

Internet & Tech Tsinghua Unigroup hopes for Apple contract

The Yangtze is known for its flash floods, but not for floods of flash. That may change if China’s largest semiconductor manufacturer has its ...

China and the World Spring Gala skit stirs criticism in Africa

Thus far 2018 hasn’t been great for Sino-African relations. In late January, the French newspaper Le Monde reported that Chinese officials had ...

Entertainment Cinema bosses celebrate as Chinese set Lunar New Year box office…

Before the high-speed train transformed China’s transport system, getting home to celebrate the Lunar New Year was no small feat for millions of the ...

A little less bite

Entertainment Popular food show goes stale in its third season

After a four-year hiatus, state broadcaster CCTV decided to revive its wildly popular food documentary series A Bite of China late last ...

Planet China Revelations of sexual harassment across the entertainment industry were one of…

Revelations of sexual harassment across the entertainment industry were one of the biggest news stories in 2017. But they don’t seem to have reached ...

Thumbs down for the US

Cartoons Thumbs down for the US

They are one of the most recognisable symbols of Chinese culture – the Terracotta Warriors, the army of soldiers that guards the tomb of the ...

Washington woes

Sino-File “The US government and some competitors do not compete with Huawei…

The opinion of Richard Yu, Huawei’s CEO for its consumer business group, voiced at a media roundtable at the annual Mobile World Congress in ...

Potty behaviour

And Finally Why a boy’s elevator mishap has gone viral online

They are called “bear kids” – unruly children whose parents do little to discipline them. The phrase has become popular in China and a newly ...