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WiC 473 (Nov 8, 2019)

Full speed ahead

Internet & Tech, Talking Point Huawei the big winner as China celebrates its commercial launch of…

Almost 20 years ago, when European governments were selling 3G licences for tens of billions of dollars, China was just beginning to make its way in 2G ...

Head east, and then go west?

Internet & Tech AliExpress targets overseas sales, with big advances into Eastern Europe

This Saturday marks the 30th anniversary since the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. That night, thousands of jubilant East Germans poured ...

A market that matters

Economy HSBC’s latest trade survey showcases the rise of China’s consumers

Xi Jinping was back in Shanghai on Tuesday to open the second China International Import Expo, a major trade convention that promotes the country as a ...

Tower of strength?

Property SOHO China puts trophy assets up for auction

Pan Shiyi, chairman of SOHO China, made a recent appearance in the TV series Back to the Field, a show that puts a group of celebrities on a farm. In ...

Turning up the AC

M&A Hillhouse wins investment duel for Gree

Strong leaders listen to good advice. That was what helped an illiterate peasant called Zhu Yuanzhang overthrow China’s Mongol rulers and found the ...

Mine, not yours

Banking & Finance Why the management shakeup at Bitmain?

Two years ago when Travis Kalanick was forced to step down as boss at Uber, he told people that he was simply “Steve Jobs-ing,” dropping a ...

Internet & Tech More arrests in fresh setback for Kingnet

The online game developer Kingnet has always been a bit creative. For example, in 2015 when there was a freeze on new IPOs, it started trading on the ...

Coming to market

Banking & Finance Despite threat from the Senate, Chinese companies still seek American IPOs

The history of Chinese companies going public in the United States began in October 1992, when Brilliance China Automotive became the first of its kind ...

Seoul searching

Aviation Why Chinese airlines are poaching Korean pilots

When Yang Liwei became China’s first astronaut in 2003 he was hailed as a national hero. But strangely he wouldn’t have been allowed to operate at ...

China Consumer China’s largest ‘local’ fast food chain expands

The demobilisation of People’s Liberation Army servicemen in the 1980s liberated a handful of major business talents. Among the military men to ...

Bullying its way to the top

Entertainment In spite of almost no promotion a bitter drama dominates the…

Nobody likes a bully, although a film about bullying is proving pretty popular in China. The response to Better Days, a coming-of-age-drama ...

Planet China China is so short of pilots that it has poached nearly…

China is so short of pilots that it has poached nearly 500 of them from South Korea (see this week's "Aviation" section). But that hasn’t stopped one ...

Space, the next frontier

Cartoons Space, the next frontier

The world is no longer enough to fulfill Chinese ambitions, it seems. Forty years after the launch of the first special economic zone in Shenzhen, ...

Too much transparency

And Finally Government orders safety review after building binge of glass bridges

There are 2,300 of them across China: they’re transparent, rather terrifying and, if the reports are to be believed, not totally ...