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WiC 453 (May 24, 2019)

Phoney war hots up

China and the World, Talking Point America launches a full-frontal assault on China’s tech champion Huawei

One of the most potent symbols of President Richard Nixon’s groundbreaking trip to China in 1972 was Beijing’s gift to Washington of two pandas: ...

Out of their league

Internet & Tech A bad quarter for Baidu, which drops it further behind its…

In the Oxford English Dictionary, a word is regarded as ‘obsolete’ or ‘archaic’ if no evidence of its written usage can be found after 1930. ...

Entertainment, Society Korean war movies ‘in’ – Game of Thrones and a US…

The world watched with baited-breath this week as an eight-year odyssey drew to a close and it finally became clear who had won the Iron Throne of ...

A dangerous path

China and the World More attacks on CPEC projects in Pakistan

Sometime later this year or early next, cinema audiences in China and Pakistan will get to see The Journey – a feature-length drama about an ...

Energy & Resources Huadian Energy faces potential delisting

In 2014 there were two events that triggered a rethink on risk appetites in the Chinese financial markets. The authorities broke with the so-called ...

Tianhe’s travails continue

Banking & Finance Chemical firm’s campaign to restart share trading brings more trouble

Which is the most troublesome Hong Kong IPO in recent memory? More than a few investment bankers in the city might pick Tianhe ...

Who’s Hu The backer of Starbuck's fiercest rival in China

Two year-old Luckin Coffee is known to have burned through at least Rmb3 billion ($450 million) in funding, fuelling a growth strategy that talks about ...

Conferences Gridiron versus soccer analogy used to explain Sino-US falling out

Last week’s HSBC China Conference – the sixth of the annual gatherings – attracted a record attendance for its three-days of meetings, ...

Coleman not up to mustard

Sport Welsh coach fired by Hebei

Fans of the Chinese football club Guangzhou Evergrande stoked heated debates two years ago by displaying a huge banner during a match in Hong Kong. ...

Knowledge outage

Society All Wikipedia banned in China

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia has many entries on the subject of censorship in China. There is a page about the Great Firewall – the ...

What’s in a name?

Planet China Dogs are supposed to be man’s best friends, although a friendly…

Dogs are supposed to be man’s best friends, although a friendly response is not what a dog breeder from Fuyang in Anhui province received when he ...

A Sino-American legacy

Sino-File “I’ve never left China. My family’s been there for 600 years.…

A remark made by IM Pei to the Financial Times in 2010 when Edward Heathcote asked if he felt like a Chinese architect. Pei died last Thursday aged ...

The Avengers’ home is Chinese

Cartoons The Avengers’ home is Chinese

Disney’s Avengers: Endgame has been a huge hit at cinemas around the world where it has become the second-highest grossing film in box ...

In the first flush

And Finally China’s toilet revolution remains in full swing

Two bricks and a hole – a decade ago it’s fair to say this was the norm for public toilets in rural China. Fast-forward to 2019 and the country’s ...