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WiC 458 (Jul 5, 2019)

Beautiful friendship (part 2)

China and the World, Talking Point Another twist in the trade row as Trump softens ban on…

Perhaps the beginning of the end of the Cold War can be traced back to the 1971 world table tennis championships in Japan’s Nagoya. Prior to that ...

Economy Bankruptcy of Ningbo’s top developer revives concern over shadow banks

Anbang in Chinese means “giving stability to the country”. Backed by a number of well-connected princelings, the insurer was synonymous with ...

The retail retreat

China Consumer Carrefour announces partial exit from China

Such was Carrefour’s reputation when it first came to China in 1995 that the French hypermarket chain earned local status as the retailing equivalent ...

All sorts of rubbish

Environment Shanghai’s citizens struggle with garbage policy

Shanghai is often associated with the finer things in life like beautifully tailored clothes and Michelin-starred food. But conversation in China’s ...

Banking & Finance Will the BAT troika become the oligarchs in China’s fintech space?

Over the past 20 years, three companies have come to define contemporary China. They are the BAT troika of Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent. They have ...

Raising a stink

Agriculture With China’s corn crop at risk, nation’s scientists wage war on…

China’s farming community has a wealth of ancient proverbs to predict weather activity, one being: ‘A storm of black dragonflies, and a drought is ...

When students strike

History Lessons Parallels between the Hundred Days' Reform and the recent protest against…

Television images have circled the globe over the past fortnight showing masses of Hongkongers protesting against a controversial extradition law (see ...

Getting more animated

Entertainment What does a hit Japanese anime say about improving ties with…

After Miyazaki Hayao released Spirited Away back in 2001, the film went on to win an Academy Award for best animated film. Miyazaki later ...

The baby bounce

Healthcare Jinxin Fertility IPOs in Hong Kong, capitalising on bullish outlook for…

China’s infertility rate was said to have risen from no more than 3% two decades ago to about 15% in 2016, according to a joint study by China’s ...

The predator – or the prey?

Internet & Tech Dronemaker DJI in new bid to win over government clients in…

DJI, the world’s top drone brand, grabbed headlines this week when a man filming his family at the beach in Florida suddenly realised that a shark ...

Society Whistleblowing is still a dangerous choice in China

For 16 years the body of Deng Shiping lay buried beneath the running track of a Hunan school. Repeated attempts by his family to get the authorities to ...

Gaming or gaokao

Planet China Parents in China put an inordinate amount of effort into ensuring…

Parents in China put an inordinate amount of effort into ensuring their kids do well in the nation’s college entrance exam (known locally as the ...

North Korea: destination du jour

Cartoons North Korea: destination du jour

Donald Trump’s taste for moments of high drama took another twist on Sunday when he became the first US president to set foot on North Korean soil, ...

Survival of the fittest

Sino-File “We have switched from seeking development to fighting for our survival.…

Huawei boss Ren Zhengfei discusses the US export ban with the Financial Times. The interview was conducted prior to Trump’s apparent scaling back of ...

Change of address

And Finally Renaming drive reaches new heights in Fujian

“The street that Tamina was born on was called Schwerinova Street. That was during the war, when Prague was occupied by the Germans. Her father was ...