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WiC 421 (Aug 24, 2018)

Internet & Tech, Talking Point A rare profit decline stokes questions on Tencent’s growth prospects

The cast of characters from nearly a decade of Week in China reporting has changed as time has progressed. Early headlines tended to feature companies ...

Internet & Tech Pinduoduo has been hit by a wave of bad publicity since…

Over the last month, one of the most widely circulated posts on Chinese social media goes something like this: in the 1990s, when Nike tried to figure ...

Economy Why the government wants to boost the birth rate

Discuss a social or economic problem with people in cities like Beijing or Shanghai and you get tend to get a fatalistic response: “China’s ...

Baklava and a bailout?

China and the World China one of the prime candidates as Turkey looks for a…

According to Dagong Global, one of China’s credit rating agencies, the United States is only marginally more trustworthy than Turkey when it comes to ...

Healthcare Resignations and arrests in the aftermath of Changsheng vaccine scandal

The latest reshuffle of Hong Kong’s blue-chip stock index earned a mixed reaction last month. The departure of Bank of East Asia, Singtao Daily ...

The host with the most

Belt and Road Mahathir makes trip to China but Belt and Road train row…

When Mahathir Mohamad visited China for the first time in 1985 – making stops in Beijing and Hangzhou – the Malaysian prime minster brought a ...

Rush for the exit

Banking & Finance Why private equity firms in China are facing tougher times

Zhihu is to China what Quora is to the US: a reliable source of answers for users’ questions – often provided by experts in their respective ...

Society Why China’s lefties are under pressure to change hands

The English word “sinister” has two meanings – “left-handed” and “evil”. Likewise the Chinese word for left – “zuo” – denotes ...

Dramatic investigations

Entertainment Angelababy’s husband probed over stocks and Fan Bingbing over tax

Elon Musk is no stranger to controversy but the Tesla boss probably wasn’t expecting such a firestorm when he penned a Twitter post about taking the ...

Too rich for the censor’s taste?

Entertainment Movie about ethnic Chinese tycoons not shown in China

Crazy Rich Asians was the standout success at North American cinemas over the weekend. Driven by strong reviews and pent-up demand for a ...

On present form

Planet China Breaking up is hard to do: it’s the theme of countless…

Breaking up is hard to do: it’s the theme of countless pop music lyrics. Over in China the Youth Times picked up last week on an extreme example, ...

Not so Chinese after all

Sino-File “We don’t deny building on Chrome’s browser engine”

An embarrassing climb-down for Redcore CEO Chen Benfeng after its website had claimed to have “broken the American monopoly” with a ‘100% ...

National spirit

And Finally Kweichow Moutai ends 17-year trademark battle

Moutai is the drink of choice at Chinese state banquets and corporate get-togethers but after a 17-year ordeal, the storied baijiu’s ...