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WiC 413 (Jun 15, 2018)

Meet my new buddy

China and the World, Talking Point But is China the biggest winner of the Trump-Kim summit?

He can allegedly launch a nuclear missile at a Californian city, but when it comes to getting to Singapore he has to borrow a jumbo jet from China. It ...

Trial and error

Chinese Character Pivotal ruling portrayed as a positive for business tycoons

Before Liu Zhihua was sacked as vice mayor of Beijing in 2006 and given a suspended death sentence on corruption charges, he was responsible for a $40 ...

Little Red Book 2.0

China Consumer Unicorn status for luxury e-commerce platform

It is almost impossible to separate the Quotations from Chairman Mao from China’s Cultural Revolution, a period when revolt against ...

Poorly produced

Entertainment Alibaba’s Youku pulls the plug on a TV show that blew…

Before it reached cinema screens in 1997 Titanic generated most of its headlines because its director James Cameron had blown through an ...

Headline earnings

Media & Gaming Zimeiti hunt media profits but they still need to play by…

“Call it ‘We Media’. Journalism is evolving away from its lecture mode – i.e. here's the news, and you buy it or you don't,” wrote Silicon ...

Parent trapping

M&A Alibaba’s latest investment targets babies

Terrified that an aging population might derail its economic ascent, in late 2015 China eased its decades-long policy limiting most couples to only one ...

Water, water… not everywhere

Ask Mei Yunnan's lakes evidence China's environmentalism

While economists, strategists and pundits enjoy predicting the various “looming crises” facing China, they tend to focus on the country’s ...

Red Star A new feminist icon in China?

In an industry which has long prized women for being younger, slimmer and girlish, Wang Ju is an anomaly. Indeed, the contestant on pop show ...

The best and the brightest

Society New rule forbids media profiling exam stars

Last week 9.75 million teenagers sat the two-day national university entrance exam known as the gaokao. That’s less than the high of 10.4 ...

Huawei’s Aussie problem

China Down Under National security concerns over new 5G network

The attractiveness of Chinese goods used to lie in the fact that they were cheap, with prices low enough to overcome many concerns about ...

The only way is up

Banking & Finance Foxconn and CATL spark buzz in China’s A-share IPO market

In recent years there has been much talk about Stock Connect – the channel that links mainland China’s two key bourses with Hong Kong’s stock ...

Planet China The term ‘absentee landlord’ gained a new meaning in Hangzhou late…

The term ‘absentee landlord’ gained a new meaning in Hangzhou late last month when the owner of a flat discovered the cost of leaving his property ...

Sino-File “We know Edinburgh is second only to London for Chinese tourists…

Gordon Dewar, CEO of Edinburgh Airport, welcomes the arrival of the first direct flight from China, which landed on Tuesday. The newly inaugurated ...

Cartoons Birthday boy

With Vladimir Putin the world has become accustomed to tough talk. So it was something of surprise when the Russian leader bared his emotions to ...

Only the healthy need apply

And Finally BGI boss runs into trouble with revelation of questionable company policies

Companies often consider their staff as brand ambassadors, making expectations of their behaviour or appearance. However, Wang Jian, chairman of BGI, ...