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WiC 459 (Jul 12, 2019)

Mastering the cultural divide

Internet & Tech, Talking Point Early challenges for Germany’s robot maker Kuka under Midea’s ownership

Last November – two years after its $5 billion takeover by Chinese electrical appliance maker Midea – Kuka’s chief executive told reporters in ...

Not coming to America…

Education How parents in China are turning against their kids studying in…

Outside the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University there is a statue of Yung Wing, the first Chinese scholar to have graduated from an American ...

Healthcare Mindray vies with Wens as ChiNext’s top dog

It ended a decade-long affair with the US capital markets when it delisted from New York in 2016 and opted to return to China and relist there last ...

Energy & Resources Chinese SOE wins major Russian Arctic contract

In January of last year the Chinese government issued its first white paper on the Arctic. It announced that China was now a “near-Arctic State” ...

King of the road?

Auto Industry Guangzhou tycoon is spending $41 billion in a huge bet on…

He made his first fortune by thinking small, but these days Evergrande’s founder dreams much bigger. Xu Jiayin (or Hui Ka-yan as he is known in ...

Tycoon disgraced

Property Property baron detained in child sex abuse case

Last week, one of the most widely circulated weibo posts began: “Using Shanghai’s garbage-sorting system [for more on this topic, see WiC458], ...

Environment, GBA Why an emissions database is needed in the GBA

Pollution is a problem that doesn’t respect borders, as American scientists highlighted again in a study of their national parks two years ago. Ozone ...

New Disney darling

Red Star Liu Yifei plays title role in Disney’s Mulan

Disney’s animated film Mulan flopped in China 10 years ago as audiences complained the titular character Hua Mulan was too foreign-looking and the ...

Connecting the dots

Conferences A three-day conference seeks to raise awareness of the Greater Bay…

What’s the Greater Bay Area (GBA) and how can I do more business there? That was the basic proposition of HSBC’s GBA Connections conference in late ...

A ferment of activity

M&A Why did dairy giant Mengniu sell its fast-growing yogurt brand Junlebao?

Were it not for regulatory pressure and massive debt, acquisitive conglomerates like Anbang and HNA would very likely still be clinging to their trophy ...

High school lows

Education, Entertainment A TV drama about Chinese students studying in the US gets…

A survey published in 2013 by Yale researchers found that 45% of Chinese students in the US reported symptoms of depression on campus, and 29% were ...

Planet China The behaviour of two grandfathers on subway journeys in China has…

The behaviour of two grandfathers on subway journeys in China has been sparking rather different reactions on social media. In Dalian, a 76 year-old ...

Rocket fuel, for investors too

Cartoons Rocket fuel, for investors too

When John Phelan visited Beijing in 1986, the New York Stock Exchange boss was presented with a share certificate by Deng Xiaoping. The issuer, ...

Sino-File “Though winter may be tough to live through, it’s a good…

A comment attributed by the Wall Street Journal to female tycoon Zhou Xiaoguang, whose conglomerate Neoglory was in bankruptcy court in April after it ...

Cautionary tale

And Finally NBA’s leading scorer stopped by Shanghai police

It’s the sort of insurance policy that even the most experienced underwriter would shudder to price: insuring against injury one of the world’s ...