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WiC 420 (Aug 17, 2018)

The trillion dollar question

China and the World, Talking Point Could China target Apple as a bargaining chip in the worsening…

In 1893 an English engineer was carrying out a survey to build one of China’s earliest railways when he came across a fishing village called ...

M&A Heineken seals tie-up with China Resources Beer

In 2014 the controlling shareholder of Dutch beer giant Heineken told Fortune magazine she had been “very, very sorry” when another family-owned ...

Principles versus profits

Internet & Tech Google set to return to China with smartphone search – that’s…

The saying that ‘the past is a foreign country, where things are done differently’, explains much in the dynamic internet world, where new ideas ...

Nein, nein, nein

China and the World Germany pushes back on Chinese investment

Angela Merkel may choose her words a lot more carefully than Donald Trump but she has sent a similarly cautious message on the desirability of Chinese ...

Stand and deliver

China Consumer Alibaba’s Ele.me ups the ante in battle with Tencent-backed Meituan

The Peloponnesian War, fought between two of Greece’s leading city-states – Athens and Sparta – in 431–404 BC, was believed by Thucydides to be ...

Agriculture Jilin fire raises old questions about grain supply

In 1735 the Emperor Qianlong ordered an audit of his grain reserves. One of his largest granaries then burned to the ground before his audit team could ...

Losing the plot

Entertainment Audiences feel scammed by a new film ‘based’ on a much-loved…

Back in 2009, a TV show called iPartment, or Love Apartment, as its name translates more directly from Chinese – was a big hit. The ...

China and the World How history matters for Beijing’s worldview

We can only make sense of the present by understanding the past. It is hardly an original idea but Robert Bickers’ Out of China explains its ...

Economy Why a triumphalist scholar has come under fire

Last month China’s ruling Communist Party launched a mass campaign to “deepen patriotism” in university faculties. One academic that the Party ...

Fast, but fatal?

Property Country Garden curbed after construction deaths

Yang Guoqiang views his time as so valuable that he is said to spend no more than 10 minutes a day eating, shunning dinner banquets because they take ...

For the love of the game

Planet China As WiC has reported on numerous occasions over the past year,…

As WiC has reported on numerous occasions over the past year, short video is a hot phenomenon online – with Bytedance’s platform Douyin one of the ...

An unlikely e-commerce star

Cartoons An unlikely e-commerce star

When you think of global brands on Alibaba’s Tmall shopping platform, names like Adidas, Lancome or Uniqlo might spring to mind. You probably ...

About to take charge

Sino-File “Production is going to be in China and they are going…

Doron Myersdorf, the CEO of Israeli battery company StoreDot, tells the Financial Times that Washington’s policies are stopping the US from becoming ...

And Finally New pipeline puts Kinmen in headlines

Water, not land, was once Hong Kong’s most expensive commodity. The colonial government shipped it from Japan during periods of scarcity and the ...